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Summary: Good Stuff!!!
Review: I thought that this movie pretty good. The combination of cast members that were chosen was definitely one of the high points of the movie. First of all you have Bruce Willis is one of the best roles he has ever played in. Secondly, there is Milla Jovovich playing the "perfect being," which I would have to say was pretty good casting there. Then there is Chris Tucker, who just steals every scene he is in. The best part about this movie is that it doesn't take itself seriously. The Fifth Element is a blatantly ridiculous sci-fi movie, and yet it has a well written story to it as well. It is a definite good buy for anyone looking for a sci-fi, an action, or a comedy, because in the end, it really is all three.
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Summary: Its better then decent
Review: I think this movie is decent. I don't think it was a waste of my money or time. Neither was it the best movie I've ever seen. I thought it had a clever plot. It was different and the special effects were pretty cool. The acting is good too. Overall I really think this movie is worth your while. Don't go into the movie expecting anything and you'll leave happy!
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Summary: Unpretentious Scifi/action fun
Review: OK - so the 5th Element isn't 2001, or even Aliens. As noted in other reviews, there's certainly a lot in this movie that seems to be superfluous or never adequately explained. This is a fantastic ride, despite these minor flaws (if, unlike me, you see these things as flaws).If you hate Bruce Willis, then take a pass on this one. "Corbin Dallas" is a mix of his roles in Die Hard & The Last Boyscout, but much, much lighter in mood. Think "Hudson Hawk suffering from depression." Gary Oldman does his usual bang-up job as villain, and Milla-whatshernameovich's Leelo stands out from her initial introduction until the final minutes of the film. Their strong performances more than compensate for the bizarre and fortunately brief appearance of Luke Perry. There's a bit of a forced moment when Leelo "realizes the horror of human war" by speed-viewing Time-Life magazine photographs, but this is fortunately over fairly quickly. Despite this attempt to inject some sort of meaning or conscience into the movie, the fun soon resumes. The visual effects are quirky but excellent, ranging from the cheesy "Taxis of the Future" to the ethereal "Cruise Ship of the Future." The opera scenes also carry a heavy visual impact. I must admit, however, that I may feel this way due to my affinity for the color blue, and the fact that this scene arrived just as the majority of the Christian Brother's kicked in. The soundtrack has to be mentioned. I would despise much of the music on its own, but it is so cleverly intertwined with the visual aspects that it lends an enormous weight to the film. Of course, the aria is unforgettable, but in a strange way, so is the weird dance/house/acid/funk thing during the "robbery attempt". The one, truly unfortunate aspect of the film is the Chris Tucker character. In fact, I have to consider the Fifth Element to be a masterpiece simply because I didn't kick it out of the DVD as soon as he appeared. However, to punish (in a small way) the powers-that-be for encouraging him in any way, I'm deducting one star from the total. In summary, if you have to have meaning & depth in your motion pictures, go watch Das Boot, or better yet, read a book. The Fifth Element may not be Clarke&Kubrick, but it's a great deal more entertaining.
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Summary: Seriously UNDERATED!!!!
Review: This movie is incredible, Bruce is awesome as usual, Chris is funny as usual, and of course Milla is HOT!!! This movie is hillarious and is action packed! This is a must see for sci-fi fans, so I recommend you buying this now!!!!
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Summary: overblown and under-plotted rip-off of Harry Canyon
Review: It's a shame that "The 5th Element" looks so good and actually fields some great talent, because it's still a major botch. A threadbare story has aliens designing a weapon to protect Earth from some evil. The weapon involves 4 stones, which we later learn represent four elements forces: earth, wind, water and fire ("Captain Planet" doesn't appear) - around a perfect being (Milla Jovavich). It's the 23rd century, when Earth looks like the "Harry Canyon" story from "Heavy Metal" (1979) - it's like New York City in its bad days but with flying cabs and nasty gun-toting aliens instead of Kojak. (The future NYC actually looks more like our NYC than you'd get in an episode of Kojak, but I digress). While everybody on Earth is is looking for ways to cheat everybody else on Earth, a huge, fiery space thing appears out of nowehere and starts heading for Earth. To confirm that the fiery death planet is bad (after it vaporized a few of Earth's battlecruisers) Ian Holm appears out nowehere - apparently the chief of a hidden religion meant to prepare Earth for the good aliens. Explaining to Earth's leaders the story of an elemental machine that can destroy evil (as long as it's centered on the supreme being of light), Holm's character can only feel defeated when a crew of his noble aliens is shot down by another race of aliens who look like big angry puppy dogs. When the aliens' ship is salvaged, humans find enough remains to clone one of them, who turns out to be the lovely LeeLoo (Jovavich - stealing her scenes wih some funny language that's engaging and funny). The humans, being the nasty and stupid thruoughout this flick, scare LeeLoo into running. She jumps from a building and into a flying cab driven by Corben Dallas (Bruce Willis). Now, if my "Heavy Metal" reference above didn't quite clinch it for anybody who actually caught that movie since 1979, than I have to warn you now that this flick, when it's comprehensible, is a big loud and uninspired riff on "Harry Canyon". Though some details are obviously different, we have the futuristic NYC, hard-edged taxi driver who nobody can get past (like Harry Canyon, he proves so adept at disarming would-be robbers, that he's made a seizable collection of their guns), alien gangsters, a beautiful and helpless woman and a horrible, timeless orb of evil. Most of the time, however, it's incomprehensible - full of action sequences that make little sense. Because it'll take the death planet some time to reach Earth, the business end of evil in the movie is handled by a southern-accented capitalist named Zorg (Gary Oldman) who figures on cashing in on the anticipated apocalypse. Getting in on the action, Willis, Zorg and Earth's government learn that the stones needed to power the weapon are being held by a pan-galactic diva - an exotic aria-singing alien. When the Diva arranges to give Leelo the stones during a rendezvous aboard a spacegoing luxuryliner, the ship becomes the focus of Zorg, his double-dealing alien cohorts, Dallas and Leelo, leading to a battle that features the largest interior explosion in cinematic history. Nice visuals aren't enough to carry a story that never really goes anywhere, and wouldn't move at all if not for repeated unnecessary plot twists (why do the aliens turn on Zorg? Their profit motive is never explained. Why does Zorg even fight for the Evil Planet - the script doesn't begin to hint why; the entire rendezvous idea is ludicrous - if the diva wants to give Leelo the stones, her plan to turn them over on a cruise ship overloaded with evil, shape-shifting aliens spells explosive disaster all over it; the plot twists are unnecessarily complicated by the need to keep plans a secret, though it's obvious that each side is in on it; there's a pitched battle in a space-port as competing characters face-off to impersonate Dallas and secure the last seat on the last flight out to the space-liner - implying that spaceships are hard to come by. Yet, when the script gets to the space-liner, we find that Zorg and his two-timing alien allies have managed to make it after all). The thin story is underlined by its nonexistent characters - the only real characters are Dallas and Zorg, the rest falling into meaningless, undefined roles. Jovavich is cute and sexy as Leelo - culminating in a scene in which she takes on a squad of aliens alone - though she never becomes more than an object of the story. Even Dallas and Zorg don't measure up that much - with the hero being another tough-talking loser Willis perfected in "Die Hard" while Zorg is another push-button villain with an accent. Neither hero nor villain ever connect: literally, Dallas and Zorg never meet ro exchange bad one-liners (how did that get missed?). And worst of all is Chris Tucker as the sexually hyperkinetic Ruby Rhod. Ian Holm seems to pine for a better movie. Most of the rest of the characters seem to stumble and stammer - pretty much like I would if I had to share an elevator with a supermodel. The confusing plot completely side-steps what it's even about - like why is the death planet fixated on Earth? Where has it been for centuries - why couldn't the Mondoshawans destroy it before? The flick makes Earth look so degenerate at first, and then never suggests why it's worth saving. Given the meaningless story, the visuals would have to be spectacular to compensate, but they're nowhere near that good. The space shots are few and far between - and even those look only slightly better than "Babylon 5". Nothing else looks inspired, and the story, as I described, would hardly deserve the effort. How bad is this flick? Just remember, on the periodic chart of elements, the fifth element is boron.
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Summary: Bravo Luc Besson Imaginary and Exotic Director of our time
Review: The Fith Element is a true classic in the cinema world. The story line is so amazing with the correct music put to great scenery. This film is similar to Blade runner but the only thing that comes closes to blad runner is the flying cars in the futuristic city of New York but thats it, and i must say that the effects look much better than Blade Runner pluse it's well put together even for a movie that was made in a time that certain technologies weren't available which I mean that this movie did open the doors for new technics to use in movies the effects are awsome.The scene that I loved most was when Inva Mulla Tchako an Opera singer makes a cameo apperance in the film this is one of the most coolest scenes and if your thinking that theres Opera music in this movie think again as the movie has an awsome and avant-gard score by Eric Serra/Mallory Wayte the composers and conductors turned the song that she performed into a techno rock song it's so very well married into each other. It starts off soft original Opera then dies down and starts turning into trance techno music so trust me it's a pretty cool scene and I aswell recomend the soundtrack to because it includes this song and it will take you into a futuristic world. Bruce Willis is so cool in this movie he just brings a good charector to life (corban Dallas)which he portrays and the beautiful actress/model Milla Jovovich (Resedent Evil) brings to life an amazing charector to life (Liloo) as she is called in the movie she portrays and exotic and futuristic girl who try's to find the Fith Element so it is an awsome adventure full of fun and excitment. I give this film 100 stars and 5 thumps up it is a true classic especially in the SCIFI world. I also recomend The Messenger: the story of Joan of Arc and Deep Blue two other beautiful achivments from Director Luc Besson.
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Summary: Good performances
Review: Not something special but the environment works greatly in creating a good mood along with the plenty of colours and a nice little fantastic tale. A historical link to ancient Egypt and an early 20th century archeology team create an interesting plot which cannot be forseen. Bruce Willis is quite the best, ideal man for the role as all he is the one who must save the world. Gary Oldman is also a very good performer. Although american, this film has clearly a French contribution! Very good imagery, as mentioned before, cool costumes, fantastic huge sets, and dynamic characters. The soundtrack and the miniatures in some scenes are also impressive. . In terms of acting every one worked well and Milla Jovovich is as beautiful and cute as never before. If you are a die hard Willis fan, you'll be glad to own it and watch it with your company!
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Summary: Great to look at, not as great to listen to.
Review: The Fifth Element may very well be the most elaborate, visually magnificent film I've ever seen. Everything, from the spaceships to the flying cars to the city, is an example of eye-popping special effects. For that alone, I would recommend it. There are several other things going for it, too, though I can't forget the fact that the story is a mess and many individual scenes are annoying and headache-inducing. Hey, everything comes with a price, and these visuals are no different. In terms of plot, let's just say the film takes place a few hundred years in the future, and Bruce Willis is the hero who must save the Earth before a huge ball of evil will destroy it. To do so, Willis needs the help of the fifth element, turns out its Milla Jovovich. Impeding the good guys are a band of ugly aliens and an over-the-top Gary Oldman as a nasty businessman named Zorg. There are a lot of little things about The Fifth Element that bug me. First is Zorg's motivations. Apparently, he's been chosen by that big ball of evil to hinder Willis and Jovovich, and he cooperates seemingly because he believes in a big financial pay-off. Exactly what he can do with any riches after the Earth is destroyed raises more than a few questions. Basically, Oldman's just here to chew the scenery and give us a human villain, even though in the end, he isn't particularly menacing and never even comes face-to-face with Willis. Rather, the villains who participate in the physical action are a group of really ugly aliens (whose names I can't think of at the moment) that have the ability to shapeshift. These aliens look really silly, but I'll give director Luc Besson the benefit of the doubt and assume the effect was entirely intentional. Even then, they don't make for very imposing antagonists, they're almost as easy to kill as storm troopers, and they're only slightly more competent. But such flaws are made up for by not only the movie's great look, but its sense of fun. At its heart, The Fifth Element is not science fiction but a comical action/adventure with mismatched heroes, a "damsel in distress", and bad guys who threaten the world itself. Bruce Willis makes for a great deadpan hero, and as usual, excels during the action sequences. Jovovich isn't quite my idea of the perfect being, but she's acceptable in her role. Almost taking me out of the movie is an annoying Chris Tucker as an androgynous DJ. He's here as comic relief, and while he gets off a few good laughs, he's more of a detriment than anything else. Surprisingly enough, even though The Fifth Element moves at a fast pace, there are only a few all-out action scenes. Aside from a flying car chase (which Star Wars Episode II obviously took inspiration from) and a big climactic gun battle, there's not a whole lot of physical violence going on here, at least not when compared to some of the other sci-fi action films released around the same time (Star Trek: First Contact, Alien Resurrection, Starship Troopers). Keeping the film consistently enjoyable is Besson's sense of humor. He knows well enough not to take such a story seriously, so don't be surprised by how much the movie acknowledges its own silliness. I've not seen a whole lot from Besson that I liked (I always found The Professional overrated and The Messenger a bloated, though not entirely unenjoyable, mess), but The Fifth Element comes the closest to a movie of his that I genuinely liked. There's much from this movie I enjoyed and I do recommend it, but cut off the chaff, and we could've had a sci-fi/action classic on our hands and not just a good timewaster.
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Summary: Good SF flick
Review: Visually, THE FIFTH ELEMENT is a stunner. Anyone who ever doubted that a French writer/director couldn't handle a big budget Bruce Willis extravaganza will have to manger his chapeau. And for those of us who like our Sci-Fi mixed with a little mysticism, Luc Besson's film does it better than say THE BLACK HOLE or EVENT HORIZON. And who could deny that Milla Jovovich isn't perfectly cast as the embodiment of the divine? The film is quite entertaining, and a cut above the usual Willis fare. His bleach job alone should tell you that they were going after something a little different here. Still fans of the wise-cracking adventure hero should still love it, and those who just like an oddball futuristic yarn with great visuals and a sense of humor should go for this as well. Not deep space nor deep thinking but still good intelligent fun.
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Summary: Audio/Visual Extravaganza
Review: This movie is quite frankly a feast for the eyes and ears. The story is fun and interesting, the acting never takes itself too seriously and it contains one of the most unusually beautiful scenes in recent memory - the singing of the Diva Plavalaguna. By itself, this scene makes the DVD worthwhile.
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