10 Incredible Action Scenes In Terrible Movies

Jupiter Ascending is one of the biggest mega-budget disappointments of the last decade - an ambitious dud from the Wachowskis that, despite its technical ingenuity, abjectly failed on a narrative and character level. And let's not even get started on Eddie Redmayne's Razzie-winning performance.

But there's one set-piece so masterfully executed as to actually be worthy of The Matrix, and that's the eight-minute chase sequence in which Jupiter (Mila Kunis) and Caine (Channing Tatum) flee from an alien fleet in downtown Chicago.

As the aliens attack, Caine scoops up a falling Jupiter with his nifty anti-gravity boots, soaring across the Chicago skyline while the alien weaponry decimates the nearby skyscrapers.

There's an incredible visual clarity to the sequence despite its frantic intensity, enough that we can fairly assume a good portion of the film's stonking $200 million budget was spent on it.

As a dazzling VFX showcase and reminder of what the Wachowskis are capable of, it's a wonderful sequence, yet coming so early in the first act as it does, leaves the rest of the movie scrambling - and failing - to live up to it.