Jupiter Ascending (the Wachowkis, 2015)

The impact with which The Matrix hit the screen seems like a distant memory now and the Wachowskis prove to really have lost their mojo for good with this daft prepubescent-targeting bloated sci-fi product, featuring Mila Kunis as a young woman who discovers she's intergalactic royalty with Channing Tatum as a shirtless Vulcan-eared lunk of a protector to her from Eddie Redmayne's limp villain, who has designs on harvesting Earth for human material. The CGI space battles are a true incoherent mess, characters stumble from one scene to the next repeating the same dialogues and sentiments seemingly because there isn't enough plot to fill the running length and, most unforgivably, given the huge budget, there is no originality in the visual design. It's a bloodless mish-mash of half a dozen precursors and amazingly boring at many junctures.

3/10