The Fifth Element by Luc Besson

Category: English

While I found this movie extremely crappy the first time I saw it, I must say even after more than 10 years the movie doesn't seem as bad as I thought it was years ago.

The plot is simple, Milla Jovovich's character is the fifth element sent to save the world from a probable catastrophe. She lands into Bruce Willis' taxi (he's a taxi driver) and they set out to save the world along with Sir Ian Holm. There's also a wealthy industrialist, Gary Oldman who is out to claim the ultimate power to himself.

There aren't too many positives about this film, the sub standard acting or the wafer thin plot doesn't give this film a lot of ability to expand on itself. Still if you're completely bored then go ahead and watch this film. Everything is pretty main stream - so what does that mean? Right from the dialogues to the production values to the future they portray... Everything is very much the way Hollywood has been looking towards the future.

There's some experimentation done with the film used in this movie, but I couldn't be bothered, also Luc Besson and everyone else involved has done better cinema than this.

Recommendation level: 2/5 - Saw this on TV.