Actors: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne, Tuppence
Middleton, Douglas, Sean Bean
Rating: 9 out of 10, This hasn’t
received a lot of love from the critics but it was a true attempt at science
fiction on a colossal scale. Mila Kunis plays a contemporary Chicago cleaning
woman who’s unwittingly heir to one of the great family fortunes in a galaxy
spanning empire. She’s unaware of this until Channing Tatum, sporting elven
ears as a disgraced genetically enhanced soldier, shows up to rescue her from a
series of alien assassination attempts. (I know most of the ladies are now
wondering how Tatum could possibly be “enhanced” any further) Since I’m a
certified sci fi nerd I really liked the movie which focused, maybe a little
too much on the technology of the hidden civilization which is several million
years in advance of ours. The criticisms are valid as there’s a lot of stop and
go and jumping around without fully fleshing out who all the players are. It’s
a little bit of a mess but it’s a gloriously beautiful and textured mess. In a
huge plot twist, Sean Bean doesn’t get killed.
MVP:
Channing Tatum as Caine Wise, shoe surfing the Chicago skyline
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