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Summary: Fifth Element a Hoot
Review: I have been for years a fan of the French illustrator Jean "Moebius" Giraud, and always felt his visual style would translate well into film, particularly science fiction. Well, I couldn't have been more delighted when I first saw Fifth Element, to see his name in the credits. This is a film that, as much as anything else, concerns itself with visual splendour and eccentricity. It's a wild ride, and it's worth taking.While the film was soundly panned by the (North) American critics, I remain convinced that Americans just don't get the French sensibility, and the wry sense of humour that seems to pervade many French films. I keep waiting for the Hollywood remake of this, a film that will no doubt take itself too seriously, be too ponderous, and find some way to be overly sentimental. Besson gives us a real treat - great looking people, great looking sets, over the top performances and things that go bang. I don't think there is another country in the world that would give us a film in which an ex-professional wrestler gets to play the president. The film was criticized for being "eye-candy". Go see it, and remember that it doesn't just want to be eye-candy, it wants to be the best eye-candy you've ever had. Enjoy yourself, and remember that there's nothing wrong with the odd guilty pleasure.
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Summary: Luc Besson's sci fi
Review: Luc Besson's visionary sci fi film starring Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman is big on visuals and action, but lacks something in the plot and originality department. Willis is back in sweaty-vested hero mode as a cab driver, who encounters a young woman named Leloo (Milla Jovovich). The back-story for the film is over-complicated and while there are some creative ideas, the constant onslaught of visuals bog down the conceptual interest. However Besson's ultra-weird take on the film's tone is interesting, and the blend of CG and action is clever. Eccentric bad guy Gary Oldman and his army of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle look-alikes are what takes the film's credibility away. Sure, it's science fiction were' talking about here, but something in the way of normality wouldn't go astray. Regardless, it's got the eye-popping visuals you would expect from a Besson film, some electrifying action, Willis as the cool action man, a great musical score and Chris Tucker in drag! What more could you want?
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Summary: Great movie, disappointing DVD
Review: The Fifth Element is a great movie - visually striking, imaginative and loads of fun. Milla Jovovich gives an endearing and funny performance as Lilu, a beautiful woman who is an ultimate weapon against evil. Bruce Willis is at his wisecracking best as the quintessential everyman/antihero - his well metered performance in this movie makes one wonder why he isn't in more movies right now. Luc Besson's movie is just plain fun to watch. Sure, it's not Hamlet as far as dialogue goes, but let's be honest, you're not watching it for that, are you? The art design is a great combination of future/industrial/punk and it's great fun to watch a more than passable story unfold with such great actors at the helm and inside such an imaginative setting. My one gripe is about the DVD specifically - there are no special features! I'd think with a movie like this, there'd be plenty of stuff to fill the DVD with.
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Summary: Imagine Martin&Lewis clowning around in space...
Review: Luc Besson is a late 20th century Frank Tashlin, a live-action cartoonist who deploys all the resources of pop culture at his disposal to launch a critique of that culture and its ideological processes, while retaining its energy and pleasures. Like Tashlin, Besson is a canny businessman, able to play the marketing/financing game to ensure big budgets and big stars which he utilises for parodic and ironic purposes. He's lucky that Bruce Willis is game, merrily sending up his perspiring 'Die Hard' action he-man image, his trademark singlet turned orange to match the heroine's carrotty hair. As well as the pumping grind of Willis' films, Besson litters 'The Fifth Element' with allusions to the likes of 'Star Wars', 'Close Encounters' and 'Star Trek', over-egging their adolescent fantasy, revealing their modes to be the highest camp, a big-budget inflation of a Village People video, maybe one directed by Sergio Leone. And onlookers were surprised the film didn't go down well in America?! 'Element' is a comic flipside to 'Blade Runner''s dour post-modernism, with the emphasis firmly on gender. The hero is a mixture of action man (ex-military hero) and Everyman (cab driver) with requisite 'personal' problems (his wife left him). These cliches are roundly mocked, backstory is rendered absurd, and in a classic running joke, Willis is the victim of a hectoring mother constantly on the phone. The heroine is a replicant created, in mock-Biblical/'Bride of Frankenstein' style, from the DNA of a severed limb (Dr. Freud!). Her attempts to learn English reveal the film's self-consciousness about its status as a French product trying to infiltrate the American market [the heavy, ambiguous presence of corporate product placement]: she attempts to understand words through pictures (for instance, 'war' is explained in a hysterical 'Clockwork Orange'-type montage): the cinema as post-literate lingua franca? Everything in the film is purloined from US action and sci-fi movies, from the fuzzy mystical premise of the fifth element to the action narrative sublimating a deferred love story, to the high-voltage high-body-count action set-pieces. But whereas American movies seek to affirm cliched images of gender - heroic masculinity, dependent femininity - 'Element' wreaks havoc on them, mixing genders, races and species with joyous abandon, and putting them through a camp blender in which costumes, make-up, dialogue, art-direction, music, performance, action choreography, motivation, editing and camerawork smash mainstream ideological certainties and functions. I never thought I'd say this about a Luc Besson movie, but 'Element' is enormous fun, right down to its wicked parody of former 'cinema du look' cohort Jean-Jacques Beineix's 'Diva'.
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Summary: The Fifth Element sound track rocks!
Review: I liked that the CD was as good as new and was delivered to me in 3-4 days. I really like the fact that I can use it for my aerobics cool-down practice!
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Summary: Its Eye Candy!
Review: This movie made such and impact in the theature. Its visually appealing, and is very enjoyable. The DVD offers very little in terms of special additions. Its disappointing that this movie really offers nothing additional for you. Once again a very visually appealing movie if you are looking for some light science fiction fare. Bruce Willis is an amusing hero as he attempts to save the world. But if you are looking for a special additions on the DVD, this doesn't offer you what it should have.
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Summary: eye candy in wild French camp
Review: This is among my favorites movies - not because of the elegance or originality of plot and charater, and certainly not because Bruce Willis has to save the world with love. It wins my stars beacuse it is a visual kalidescope woven with such flair and skill that I simply can't help but love it. J.P. Gaultier costumes, amazing music, and carefully crafted campy situations and lines make this the perfect film to simply sit back and enjoy - just don't try to take things too seriously. I don't think the film takes itself seriously, and you'll enjoy it more if you just take it as it comes.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: I liked this movie because the plot was very original and the special effects were outstanding.
I recommend this movie for all my friends because it is an action movie and all my my friends love action movies.
i dont recommend this for my parents because they do not like these kind of movies.
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Summary: A Fun but Jumbled Story...
Review: Yes, the plot keeps skipping all over the place, leaving a few holes you could (and Bruce Willis does) drive a truck through. That said, it's still a fun show (and one which seems to get watched as often as anything else in the collection)- Why? Action- go go go go go!!!
Special Effects- wow; surround sound is especially effective;
Fun Cameos- Luke Perry, "the old Chinese guy", etc.
Mila Jojovich- why say more? DVD extras are fun, add to understanding of some of the tech stuff and the story development Most importantly, the movie has fun while working its way to the expected, world-saving conclusion. Definitely worth an evening at home w/ some popcorn..
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Summary: Easily one of the best science fiction films ever
Review: Great actors, a great storyline, awesome new technology, and everything feeling realistic makes this quite comical movie a great one. Being a Science-Fiction lover, I was excited about seeing this movie. This movie is unlike any other. It is not comical by some actor making stupid faces or constantly telling jokes, (like Jim Carry always does in his movies) but is funny in a real way. It is hard to explain. The Fifth Element is a movie for everybody, whether you like Sci-Fi or not, you'll most likely like this movie. My grandfather and I have extremely different tastes, yet we agree on this movie. I heavily recommend this movie. Best played with surround sound. At least rent it.
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