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Summary: My First DVD purchase
Review: I love this movie. This is one of my favorite Bruce Willis movies. The action is awesome. Chris Tucker's character in the movie makes me laugh so much. I will be watching this DVD a lot!!!!
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Summary: Over-the-top Sci-fi.
Review: This film is a cross between "Blade Runner" and "Flash Gordon." It has the slick special effects and subtley smart script of the first mixed with the over-the-top look and complete campiness of the second. But what makes this fun to watch more times are the ridiculous antics of all the characters with their overacting, brilliantly stupid costumes, and really bad haircuts. Bruce Willis reprises his "Die Hard" role this time in an expensive sci-fi setting and he pulls off the action hero well. What's great about Bruce Willis is that he is the underrated "every-guy" caught in an amazing situation; and unlike most hero-types who never get hurt during the course of their adventure, Mr. Willis once again takes some bloody shots. But he emerges smiling in the end, albeit covered with grit, draped in torn clothing stained in his enemy's blood. This is also a perfect fit for Milla Jovovich. Unlike the appalling "The Messenger" in which her overacting was so bad as to be laughable, here it melds well with the overall campy feel of the movie. Gary Oldman is very nearly too much even for this extravaganza, but eventually can be forgiven for trying too hard. While Chris Tucker steals every scene he is in. Whether that is a good thing or not depends on the viewer. The first time I saw this, in the theater, I was rolling my eyes at his painful performance. But every time since I've laughed at his work here repeatedly. What was a personally nice surprise here was Ian Holm who plays Priest Cornelius. It's truly a rare film to find him using his comic talents. Most times he is playing Shakespearean types or other pompous British characters. Here, however, he is very funny. This film cost $60 million to make, and the special effects were worth every penny. Just remember that this is, in essence, a comical sci-fi adventure story, and really shouldn't be taken seriously. Later.
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Summary: Magnificent movie plus excellent background music too!
Review: "The Fifth Element" is an astonishing achievement in science Fiction moviemaking that at least in my opinion, hasn't been seen in many years. 1997 wasn't the greatest year for movies in my opinion. There was the awful "Batman & Robin" and other forgettable films but "The Fifth Element" was and still is a groundbreaking movie that still succeeds in entertaining yet also meaningful. Perhaps there are more than four elements, even if the fifth isn't what the movie says it is. The movie begins in Egypt in the year 1914. An English archaeologist is examining the mysteries behind the prophecy of a force of evil that converges every 5000 years and the key to defeating this evil is forgotten by almost all except for an elderly Egyptian priest. During the confrontation between the elderly Egyptian priest and the English archaeologist, a huge spacecraft lands right at the entrance to the pyramids to take four stones representing the four elements air, earth, fire and water to keep safe from the force of evil that is gaining strength. The extraterrestrial beings depart Earth with the stones and the priest has made his promise to fulfill his destiny and pass down his knowledge to his descendants. 345 years later, the priest himself has long since passed away but his descendant Vito Cornelius knows of the fifth element and where it is. The aliens who left Earth 345 years earlier return to the earth to bring the Fifth Element but the ship is attacked and crashes onto earth, killing all but one of the alien species. On another note, a disgruntled cab driver named Korbin Dallas who drives a Taxi in New City in the year 2259 is having another miserable day after a really bad dream he had. Things though just get more and more aggravating until it culminates with a 'being' crashing through the roof of his cab. It turns out that the 'passenger' who crashed through the roof of his cab is the 'Divine Being', the one who can stop evil from destroying all forms of life on Earth. However, a traitorous arts designer named Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg is also after the four stones of the elements in order to gain more power. The evil is now approaching earth and time is running out for Korbin, Leeloo and crew to save Earth from total annihilation. "The Fifth Element" ranks as among one of my favorite science-fiction movies of all time. The various shots of a futuristic New York City are just utterly amazing. It almost makes me wish that I could live for 400 more years just to tryout life in that time period. The special effects are also stunningly well done and not excessive. Bruce Willis, who I remember the most through the "Die Hard" movie trilogy, is in fact at his best outside of the trilogy movies I just mentioned in "The Fifth Element". His character Korban Dallas comes off as being dramatic, disgruntled, and totally grumpy yet also funny and warm-hearted at the same time. Chris Tucker cuts both ways in my opinion. For years I thought that his character Rudy Rhod just simply ruined parts of the film with the annoying whining and scaredy-cat but today, I can appreciate him a lot more and is in fact, quite funny and great comic relief. I have no hard feelings against Rhod anymore. In fact, I think he's a riot. Ian Holm was really excellent playing the priest Vito Cornelius who is helping Leeloo, the 'Divine Being' destroy evil for good. Milla Jovovich is really good as the 'Fifth Element' humanoid Leeloo who speaks an ancient language and has the power to destroy this evil force. Then you got all of the horrifyingly ugly menacing alien goons assisting Zorg in his quest to steal the stones for his own will. The comedy, science-fiction, action, drama, all gel together incredibly well on this movie. Gary Oldman is just a riot playing the twisted and eccentric villain Zorg. Zorg is one of the funniest sci-fi bad guys that I've ever seen in movies. Even if Oldman doesn't necessarily play villains, he is great playing downright goofy menaces. Of the many films that have come out during the latter half of the 1990s, "The Fifth Element" ranks as one of the best films of this time period and even ranks above "Independence Day". Some may compare this to Star Wars but as I watch this movie, I think that TFE is more related to "Stargate" because of it's darker and mix of ancient and futuristic sceneries. I could very well describe it as "Die Hard in intergalactic space". "The Fifth Element" may have been more aimed at audiences that are looking for just plain fun and while it does well at that, it also succeeds incredibly well as being an intelligent and stunning theatrical work of art that hasn't been rivaled since its release year in the sci-fi area. Apart from "Die Hard", "The Fifth Element" is Bruce Willis' best movie so far and I doubt it will be surpassed for many years to come. While some may question it is being overdone, I feel that this is among the greatest movies that uses tons and tons of special effects to an efficient degree. The DTS edition has absolutely AMAZING sound quality and is a vast improvement over the VHS edition from years ago and now almost sounds like as if you were in fact seeing it on the big screen again with its 5.1 surround audio quality. I've heard about some having problems with playing the "Superbit" edition on some DVD players but I've had no problems with playing it on my DVD player. Which ever way you look at it, "The Fifth Element" is one of the great movies that has ever been made and I highly recommend that one gets a hand on a copy of this movie especially the DTS edition. It is worth every penny!
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Summary: Truly Superb Sci-fi!!!
Review: When the greatest evil the world has ever known (a pulsating planet thingy) threatens the Earth (and the rest of the universe) the government must call on a very unlikely and unwilling hero...a cab driver. Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) is an ex-military man whose wife died because of his job. He always thought he'd never find anyone who was "perfect" for him until...a really "big fare" literally fell into his cab...Leeloo (Mila Jovovich)is a "perfect being" who was made to protect Earth. With the help of Father Corneilus (Ian Holm), Rudy Rhod (Chris Tucker) and young David (Charlie Creed-Miles) Korben and Leeloo must find the four elements (stones) and unite them with the Fifth Element before Jean-Baptsite Emanuel Zorg (Gary Oldeman) can get his hands on the ultimate power!
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Summary: Weird
Review: This movie is very weird. Bruce Willis shouldn't have acted in such a stupid movie. It has to much of a sci-fi feel to it. It think this hurt my idea of him as a good actor. It has a pointless plot with a girl with crazy hair. Also their is pointless fighting. The guns are enormous and unrealistic. There were some good parts though, like the future feel to the movie and the way the girl talks is funny.
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Summary: lots of fun
Review: Sure this movie isn't the best movie in the world and it won't win any awards but its still fun to watch. It's imaginative, funny, filled with great acting, and has an interesting plot. Well worth a buy, or at least a rent.
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Summary: Utter Garbage
Review: This movie is utter garbage. I was writing better stories than this in 5th grade. It's a crude regurgitation of a thousand cliches into a shameful vomitous pile. There is no inspiration at all in this story. It astounds me that a movie studio could approve a script like this. It's one of the top ten worst movies I've ever seen.
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Summary: Another of the films I'd take with me to a deserted island
Review: This movie has it all.. Action, music, escape. The quality of the DVD is ok - I agree with others that suggest getting the superbit version, but if you're like me and have an older DVD player, you might want to get this version to ensure compatibility. Watchable over and over again, my greatest regret is that I missed this movie on the big screen.
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Summary: Kewl Flick
Review: Take the time to find the SuperBit edition you will not regret it. Double the A/V encoding rates of standard DVD.
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Summary: This is how patheic Colombia/Tri-Star Have become.....
Review: They must have the all time record for making incredibly bad movies, and this was one. As was Starship Troopers, Battlefield Earth, and the list goes on and on. Take a bad script, spend a ton of money on it, and you have a movie ripe to win hundreds of razzle awards. I really can't stand it anymore. I don't care for the studio or it's movies. They make bad DVDs with zero bonus features. Enough is enough. I am not buying or watching anything that Sony TV and Movies ever does again. They are the worst entertainment company in Hollywood.
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