The Fifth Element (1997)
(Le cinquième élément)
Country: FR
Technical: Technicolor/scope 127m
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, John Neville, Chris Tucker, Mathieu Kassovitz, Lee Evans
Synopsis:
Having removed four elemental stones from the Earth three centuries earlier, together with their key mysterious fifth, a benevolent alien intelligence returns in 2214 to save creation from an oncoming mass consisting of pure evil.
Review:
Besson's riff on Star Wars/Stargate themes is the most contradictory work yet from a director who has been happy to juxtapose existential material with stylistic frippery and cynical violence. Having enticed for half its length with an apocalyptic intrigue and playfully comic-strip modernist design, it then throws caution to the winds with coincidences and non-sequiturs rubbing shoulders with some ruinously over the top performances, not least from Tucker. Worth seeing for its good points, among them Jovovich's Supreme Being.
(Le cinquième élément)
Country: FR
Technical: Technicolor/scope 127m
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, John Neville, Chris Tucker, Mathieu Kassovitz, Lee Evans
Synopsis:
Having removed four elemental stones from the Earth three centuries earlier, together with their key mysterious fifth, a benevolent alien intelligence returns in 2214 to save creation from an oncoming mass consisting of pure evil.
Review:
Besson's riff on Star Wars/Stargate themes is the most contradictory work yet from a director who has been happy to juxtapose existential material with stylistic frippery and cynical violence. Having enticed for half its length with an apocalyptic intrigue and playfully comic-strip modernist design, it then throws caution to the winds with coincidences and non-sequiturs rubbing shoulders with some ruinously over the top performances, not least from Tucker. Worth seeing for its good points, among them Jovovich's Supreme Being.
(Le cinquième élément)
Country: FR
Technical: Technicolor/scope 127m
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, John Neville, Chris Tucker, Mathieu Kassovitz, Lee Evans
Synopsis:
Having removed four elemental stones from the Earth three centuries earlier, together with their key mysterious fifth, a benevolent alien intelligence returns in 2214 to save creation from an oncoming mass consisting of pure evil.
Review:
Besson's riff on Star Wars/Stargate themes is the most contradictory work yet from a director who has been happy to juxtapose existential material with stylistic frippery and cynical violence. Having enticed for half its length with an apocalyptic intrigue and playfully comic-strip modernist design, it then throws caution to the winds with coincidences and non-sequiturs rubbing shoulders with some ruinously over the top performances, not least from Tucker. Worth seeing for its good points, among them Jovovich's Supreme Being.