2015: Jupiter Ascending
At its core, is a deceptively simple story wrapped in layers of Byzantine galactic politics. The film follows Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), a young woman born in Russia but living in Chicago, working as a cleaning lady who hates her life. She scrubs toilets, dreams of a telescope she cannot afford, and believes she is destined for nothing.
Why has it endured?
The film's universe is built on a dark premise: Earth is essentially a "farm" for alien royalty who harvest human populations to create a youth-giving serum for the intergalactic elite. Jupiter is swept into the middle of a power struggle between three Abrasax heirs: jupiter ascending 2015