Jupiter Ascending

Starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis, Jupiter Ascending is directed By the Wachowskis of The Matrix trilogy.  The Wachowskis and supporting cast members Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne are the only reason I took an interest in this film.  Kunis stars as basically a Cinderella orphan who with the help of Tatum, comes to realize that she is the inheritor/heir to an aristocratic and ancient class in ruling the Earth, which is just a small part of an intergalactic world muddled in the same power hungry, political trappings of Earth's history.  The premise and back story to her character are so fucking underdeveloped that it is hard to see how she comes to embrace this new found role and in a relatively short amount of time, come to love Tatum's wooden warrior Prince charming.  The Wachowskis, who also wrote the script, also can't seem to make up their mind or the marketing trailers, if Jupiter Ascending is suppose to be a serious drama or a comedy.  Well, it's neither.  I was simultaneously scratching my head and bored at this folly of clear uninspiring shit.  This was especially so, in lieu of the fact that 100% better alternatives like Guardians Of The Galaxy, which I think the film was trying in earnest to illicit the tone of, make this film look like a futile first draft at best.  Like damn, how much more of it did they want us to choke down, minus only decent special effects as a chaser?