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The plot revolves around a girl named Jupiter Jones (played by Mila Kunis) and Kane Wise (Chening Tatum). He is an intergalactic warrior, she is an ordinary cleaner, but you can’t meet by clothes: Kane tells the girl that she has a great destiny. Quite a typical story about the chosen one fell in love with the audience, so we decided to collect 10 more films similar to “Jupiter ascending».
10. Riddick (2013)
The events of the third part of the film franchise will start five years after the death of Kira. Riddick becomes increasingly uncomfortable in his role as Lord Marshal of the Necromong fleet, and his refusal to take the oath has caused dissent among his subjects and assassination attempts against his subordinates.
After a final attempt on his own life, Riddick makes a deal with Commander Vaako: Furya’s whereabouts in exchange for Vaako to succeed him on the throne and become the next Lord Marshal. Led by Vaako’s assistant, Riddick and a group of Necromongs arrive on a desert planet, where the protagonist is waiting for a trap that will again force him to survive and kill.
9. Lost in Space (1998)
The film was directed by Stephen Hopkins and starred William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc and Gary Oldman. The story is adapted from the 1965-1968 CBS television series of the same name, with several actors from the original television show making cameo appearances.
«Lost in spaceis about the Robinson family making a journey to a nearby star system to begin a large-scale emigration from a future uninhabited Earth, only to be blown off course by a saboteur and the crew must try to find their way home.
8. Star Trek: Retribution (2013)
Plot “Star Trek: Into Darknessbegins in the year 2259, when Captain James T. Kirk was removed from command of the USS Enterprise for violating the Prime Directive after he let the inhabitants of the planet Nibiru onto the ship to save their Spock from a cataclysmic volcanic eruption.
Admiral Christopher Pike is reinstated as commander and Kirk is demoted to first officer. Spock transfers to another ship and shortly thereafter, the 31st Squad’s installation in London is bombed by Starfleet operative John Harrison.
Harrison attacks Starfleet Headquarters, killing Pike and other senior officers, before fleeing to the Klingons’ home planet. Kirk will also go to this dangerous place to catch the terrorist and the traitor.
7. Red Planet (2000)
2000 science fiction action film directed by Anthony Hoffman and starring Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore.
The plot is this: in 2056, the Earth is in an ecological crisis due to pollution and overpopulation. Robotic interplanetary stations are seeding Mars with atmosphere-producing algae as the first stage of terraforming. red planet.
When the amount of oxygen produced by algae inexplicably decreases, the Mars 1 team investigates. The group includes: Quinn Burchenal (Tom Sizemore), geneticist; Bud Chantilas (Terence Stamp), an aging philosopher and surgeon; systems engineer Robbie Gallagher (Val Kilmer); Commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss); pilot Ted Santen (Benjamin Bratt); and terraforming specialist Chip Pettengill (Simon Baker). They will be able to find the source of the problem, but not everyone will be able to survive after that.
6. John Carter (2012)
The film opens in 1881 after a sudden death John Carter, a former captain in the American Confederate Army during the Civil War. His nephew, Edgar Rice Burroughs (the film is based on his works), attends the funeral.
According to Carter’s instructions, the body is placed in a special vault that can only be opened from the inside. His lawyer hands over Carter’s personal journal and Burroughs decides to read it, hoping to find information explaining the cause of Carter’s death and such a strange request regarding his grave.
Then the plot takes the viewer 13 years back and shows how John Carter got to the planet Barsoom, became a prince, married a beauty and what else happened to him.
5. The Fifth Element (1997)
In 1914, aliens known as the Mondoshavans arrive at an ancient Egyptian temple to take away the only weapon capable of defeating the Ultimate Evil that appears every 5000 years for safekeeping during World War I.
The weapon consists of four stones containing the essences of the four classical elements, and a sarcophagus where fifth Element in the form of a man who combines the power of the other four into a divine light that conquers evil. The Mondoshawans promise the priests of a secret order that they will return with weapons in time to stop the evil when it returns.
In 2263, the Ultimate Evil appears in deep space as a giant black ball and destroys Earth’s spaceship. From this moment begins the story of the appearance of Lilu Dallas and her fall into the flying taxi of Korben, who will inevitably help this strange girl save the planet.
4. After our era (2013)
«After Earth” is a post-apocalyptic action film directed by M. Night Shyamalan based on an original idea by Will Smith. This is the second film after The Pursuit of Happyness in which Smith starred with his son Jadan.
The action of the tape takes place in the 31st century, when the Earth has long been abandoned, and people find themselves in conflict with a mysterious alien race. The film tells the story of a high-ranking general of the Ranger Corps peacekeeping organization and his son, who, after a spaceflight accident, fight for survival on a hostile planet (i.e., Earth itself).
3. Battlefield – Earth (2000)
sci-fi thrillerBattlefield – Earthis based on the 1982 novel of the same name by L. Ron Hubbard. Starring John Travolta, Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker, the film is about a human uprising against psychic aliens who have ruled the Earth for 1000 years.
This picture received a total of 11 Golden Raspberry nominations and won 9, which is a kind of record. Among other things, it was the worst film of the decade, but now, almost 20 years after the release, it looks like a good comedy.
2. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Luc Besson’s blockbuster follows two space agents in the 28th century who learn that their leadership is trying to exterminate a peaceful and harmless alien race.
Separately in the filmValerian and the city of a thousand planets”I would like to note the soundtrack: the song A million on my soul performed by Alexiane is simply gorgeous.
1. Guest (2013)
«Guestis a romantic fiction based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. The film tells the story of a young woman, Melanie, who is captured by parasitic aliens called Souls. They take possession of a person and subjugate him, but Melanie manages to fight back and save her mind, and at the same time make friends with the soul of the invader.
The title track is also worth noting here: Radioactive by Imagine Dragons is still a hit.