10 Things Wrong With Jupiter Ascending

9. The Script Is Unintentionally Funny & Overloaded With Exposition

No viewer likes having a script's ideas bashed over their head, and that's exactly what happens here. Though it's reasonable that the movie has to do a lot of explanation given the immense world-building the Wachowskis are attempting, there's absolutely no subtlety to it whatsoever, and it basically results in countless elongated scenes of two characters talking to each other and blandly reeling off all the plot information in a neat bundle. On the other hand, the script is also frequently amusing when it's clearly not intended to be. One conversation about how bees can apparently detect royalty is enough to make audiences go cross-eyed from how little it makes sense, and throughout the actors are clearly struggling to take the inherent campness of the material seriously at all. Basically, when it's not being bland, it's too busy being accidentally funny to actually involve on a visceral level as it needs to.