A year after its failed  pre-release in 2014,  Jupiter Ascending has now reached theaters.

The initial release, while viewed by a limited audience, received such negative reviews that the film’s full release was delayed and the entire movie was reworked. However, the movie itself is not impressive, even after all that work.

For the first ten minutes of the movie, viewers put the movie under harsh scrutiny. It didn’t help that the movie is slightly confusing and fast paced, setting a standard that’s hard to follow.

Sequences are overwhelming yet brief, and leave viewers with little time to process new plot developments. Viewers really don’t have time to comprehend, they just kind of sit there and think, ‘Whoa, this got intense.’

This marks the start of a repetitive cycle of scenes throughout the movie that could get on some viewers nerves. The portion of actual story building is less than that of fight scenes, which also makes the movie extremely  predictable.

The storyline itself is hard to follow. It was choppy and they talk about a lot of interesting things, but the movie never explains what they are. So whenever it’s mentioned, viewers have no idea what they are talking about.

After the fight scene, the movie finally starts to throw in witty dialogue to entertain the audience, though this doesn’t occur as often as it should.

The characters in the movie are one-of-a-kind. They have very different personalities and traits that don’t mesh with each other. Not only that, but they have very distinct designs, maybe even too distinct.  They pull in so many different traits that the viewer isn’t sure if the film is science fiction or mythical. For example, the main male character is a wolf- human hybrid, so basically a werewolf, but he has wings, and he is an alien from a different planet. Its extremely confusing, and he isn’t the only one like that.

On a nicer note, they throw in a bunch of alien myths to the movie such as crop circles and abductions, but then they spin them in a way that makes them unique to the movie itself. It also follows the laws of physics and puts in limitations throughout the movie to add to the problems of the main characters.

The design choices of the ships were noteworthy. They were all quite unique, specifically the fighter ships. Instead of looking like something that you would see in Star Trek or Star Wars, these ships sort of have an avian quality to them, and the wings of the ship look like actual wings of a bird.

This movie didn’t really seem like it improved from 2014. Despite the extra time and money poured into Jupiter Ascending, this movie remained dismal.

Jupiter Ascending, 2015, Directed by  Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski; PG-13.