Here's the thing. SF fans today have become so elitist and snobbish that they're pretty much just spoiled brats who can't enjoy 99% of SF movies. More than that, they rush to judgment and broadcast this negativity in order to shame people into being as negative as they are, before films are even released. Then maybe like a third of them will end up watching this stuff when it comes out on Netflix, and they'll come to Reddit and say, "Actually, this wasn't as bad as I thought it would be." Half the time, they bitch about all the remakes. "I just want some new original SF." The other half of the time, they bitch about all the crap new original SF and recommend the same seven movie franchises and TV shows that are all about 30 years old.
I'm old. If you're as old as I am, you couldn't have been all that selective about SF when it came to movies over the past 30 years. The Twilight Zone was great. Buck Rogers was great. Barbarella was great. Space 1999 was alright. Krull wasn't even SF but it was still pretty cool. The Last Starfighter was great. Etc.
Now, everyone is all like, "This isn't real SF, because the science in it is fictional." "This movie has major plot holes in it, because the scientists aren't heroes." "What made Star Trek great wasn't that it was fun and campy, but that it was about huge philosophical issues, like how technology makes everything awesome, except when you have too much of it, and then it sucks. It's so rich with meaning."
Anyway, Jupiter Ascending was really not bad. It was exactly what it seemed like it would be, but with even better special effects. I saw it in IMAX 3D, and I think it's one of those movies that certain people ought to see in the theater for maximal impact. Who are those people? (1) Old SF fans, like me. (2) Young SF fans, who aren't cynical elitists who would hate Star Wars if it were released today, if they felt like they could get away with it. This is not a deep movie. It is exactly the kind of space opera adventure that would have captivated adolescents in the 50s through the 80s.
In retrospect, I don't think the Wachowskis ever deliberately attempted to be mainstream or popular or trendsetting. It just turned out that The Matrix ballooned into something huge. Jupiter Ascending is a nice homage to something that many SF fans today find embarrassing. But it's still well done.