“Plot holes” are there, sure, but the imagery on-screen is so stirring it’s hard to care.

No amount of visual pyrotechnics, no matter how spectacular, can save such a tired, weak story.

The storytelling is clumsy, the characters are befuddling, and the Wachowskis' action sequences - once so graceful and thrilling - are ugly, noisy, and worst of all, boring.

Even when they haven't been firing on all cylinders, the sibling filmmakers have been able to provide dazzling, heady escapism. 'Jupiter Ascending' though just makes you want to escape the theater.