Jupiter Ascending (2015)

JUPITER ASCENDING  (2015)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
    Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne,
    Sean Bean, Tuppence Middleton, Douglas Booth,
    Doona Bae, Christina Cole, Terry Gilliam
Mila Kunis plays an illegal alien, born to a Russian mother on a container ship in the middle of the Atlantic, now employed cleaning toilets in the U.S.A. Imagine her surprise when she's abducted by a hunky space warrior (Channing Tatum) and learns she's a queen on a distant planet and in line to inherit the earth. Tatum, it turns out, is a sort of intergalactic werewolf and he used to have wings, but he lost them when he killed somebody he wasn't supposed to kill. So now he's equipped with these high-tech, anti-gravity boots that allow him to zip around like a kid on a set of jet-powered roller blades. Is this still making sense? Kunis, whose dramatic arsenal does not include vulnerability, repeatedly gets herself into situations where she's vulnerable and has to be rescued. You keep waiting for her to pull a Michelle Rodriguez and start kicking ass, but it takes an awful long time for her to do that. Terry Gilliam turns up briefly as an eccentric bureaucrat with an impressive collection of steampunk toys, and the movie's not too far off from something Gilliam might do himself: a relentlessly dazzling visual spectacle that could do with a little more narrative coherence.