Simplicity is not one of the virtues of this fantastical effort by French director Luc Besson to come up with a most American comic book adventure. I can see now why many fans hated Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets! In fact the movie has some surprisingly deep moments that work pretty well despite the fact that Luc Besson never wanted us to take his movie seriously. The Fifth Element is a helluva fun time but that doesn't necessarily mean it's dumb at all. The movie also has an awesome utilization of its electrifying soundtrack in the action sequences, which are pretty cool!

Gary Oldman plays the villain of the movie, Zorg, and I think that his fantastic over-the top performance is more than enough to elevate his rather uneven character that was hindered by the decline of the plot's cleverness. Bruce Willis showed his solid action chops and plenty of stamina and charisma to make Korben Dallas a quite likable hero. The characters are quite relatable, and well-developed and have some reasonable depth into them, especially Leeloo, who brought to life by Milla Jovovich. It's a thoroughly gleeful sci-fi/action romp brimming with creativity marvellous inventive visuals, distinctive style and idiosyncratic tone, and splendid and utterly unique world-building. Actually the movie exceeds my expectations.

Nevertheless, most of the above-mentioned issues didn't bother me at all. Chris Tucker flamboyant character is insufferably annoying, completely useless, and once it appeared on the screen, it hindered the flow of the narrative and hampered the plot, which is, by the way, is flawed it suffers from fast pacing at the beginning, and gradual decline of plausibility that leads to a cut-rate kid's movie ending.

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