The Fifth Element

1997 Directed by Luc Besson

There is no future without it.

In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

Bruce Willis Milla Jovovich Gary Oldman Ian Holm Chris Tucker Charlie Creed-Miles Brion James Tom Lister Jr. Mathieu Kassovitz Lee Evans Tricky John Neville John Bluthal Luke Perry Christopher Fairbank Kim Chan Julie T. Wallace Al Matthews Maïwenn Mac McDonald Indra Ové Genevieve Maylam Jason Salkey Michael Culkin Hon Ping Tang Vincenzo Pellegrino Richard Leaf Ivan Heng Sonita Henry Show All…

Alternative Titles

El cinquè element, Das fünfte Element, Le 5ème élément, Le Cinquième Élément, Il Quinto Elemento, 제5원소, Peti element, The 5th Element, The Fifth Element: Remastered

science fiction adventure action thriller fantasy

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Review by Cole Bradley ★★★★★ 8

If you don't like this movie, then I'm pretty sure you're dead inside. At the very least, you don't know what happiness is.
I'm going to name my first son Corbin Dallas Bradley. I mean that.
Big badda boom.
Review by brat pitt ★★½

let’s just get this out of the way: i went through this entire movie thinking zorg was billy zane...?!?!?! i was like WHOA crazy how he’s doing the same rich villain character from titanic, also released in 1997, except in SPACE. why don’t we talk about this more often?
then the credits rolled and it said ZORG — GARY OLDMAN and i answered my own question :/ legitimately a more oscar-worthy transformation than the darkest hour
Review by DirkH ★★ 39

This could have been an instant cult classic, drenched in an exuberant campness reminiscent of films like Ice Pirates and blending fantasy with science fiction in a way not out of place in eighties classics like Krull.
It fleshes out a vivid universe and manages to muster up an engaging plot.
And just look at that cast:
Willis
Oldman
Holm
The immaculate Brion James.
And even whatshername is ok.

And Chris Tucker.
Chris fucking Tucker.
He singlehandedly destroys this entire film with a voice that would make the toughest among you cry for mercy.
He's like getting a hangover while you're drinking.
Review by Lucy ★★★½ 5

OK i went with my friend to see it at the theater and when i got back from the bathroom before it started, my friend loudly told me "you're the only one here who hasn't seen it" WHEN I WAS GONE SHE TALKED TO EVERYONE ELSE AND EXPOSED ME HDJSJSHSKSLBD BYE
Review by Nakul ★★★★

Luc Besson's The Fifth Element was weird, inventive, stylish and so much fun, in which every actor seems to be having a blast. It's more than 20 years old and it manages to not age at all.
Review by Adam Cook ★★½ 16

The Fifth Element is a film I wish I could like more. These types of exuberant, ambitious and big budget sci-fi spectaculars are few and far between these days. It is an example of a director given free rein and a budget to match his wild flights of fancy. Because Besson was given such freedom the results were always likely to end up being indulgent to say the least. This indulgence is both the film’s great strength and crippling weakness. He, along with a selection of imaginative collaborators, have created one of the great future worlds of contemporary cinema. You don’t hire Jean-Paul Gaultier to create sensible costumes, you hire him to create wacky and ridiculous outfits and he more…
Review by Roberto_ ★★★★

nobody:
leeloo: 😝 MULTIPASS!!! 😎
Review by katie ★★★★ 1

LOVE!!! IS!!! WORTH!!! SAVING!!!
Review by reibureibu ★★★ 7

The Fifth Element is ostensibly one of the goofiest apocalyptic films about the impending doom of environmental failure, the planet's future out of whack when humans lose track of the "four elements" needed to save it. Earth, water, air, fire, all that jazz we're so familiar with considering we're a generation grown up on Nintendo JRPGs, and by losing track of these elements in the 20th-century humanity has fucked its future self for total annihilation. Thanks, boomers.
Anyways, turns out there is hope out there, but the problem is that some evil bastard who's the manifestation of corporate greed doesn't give a shit because he can just live out in space. Here is where I slyly plug in the notion…
Review by rudi ✨ ★★★½ 4

Ruby Rhod is the best character in all of cinematic history. No debate
Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 1

mul-ti-pass
Review by Travis Lytle ★★★½ 9

A compelling science fiction adventure that almost collapses under the weight of its own cartoony giddiness, Luc Besson's "The Fifth Element" is an imaginatively rendered and mostly appealing far-future-set genre outing. Colorful, light-toned, and spirited, the film is instantly engaging, but its embrace of all-things silly undercuts the strength of the experience. Still, it is a lively and, in the end, enjoyable piece of work.
A sci-fi hero quest where a put-upon cabbie is tasked with saving a woman who holds the future of the planet in her hands, "The Fifth Element" deals in classic genre beats, offering them at high volumes. Galactic overlords, menacing villains, and grating talk-show hosts join the narrative mix as the heroic cab driver works…

Recent reviews

Review by anna ★★★★★

affs acho que me apaixonei
Review by SUJIN_ ★★★

어수선한 각본에 개성 있는 캐릭터들의 활용도는 반쪽이지만, 미래를 향한 상상력은 인상적.
Review by jmillescent ★★★★★

This is camp and i love it!!!
Review by Tom ★★★★

Ruby Rhod is the only vlogger that I didn't know but needed.
Review by JVF_Cinema ★★★

A fun sci fi film with a great cast, cool visuals, set designs/wardrobe, and a pretty engaging story. It could have been better, but its worth a watch.
Review by longmaxi ★★★★★

Visually perfect
Review by jojoochoa ★★★½

Hay muchos elementos bizarros que no encajan con el tono de la pelicula, la mayoria sexuales. En ese aspecto siento que la pelicula falla un poco, pero todo lo demas es espectacular. Los personajes son buenisimos, al igual que la musica, el vestuario, maquillaje, etc. Los efectos estan muy bien logrados tambien.
Es una pelicula bizarra pero agradable a la vez.
Review by MoviesMang ★★★★

Bruce Wayne & Leeloomelon v. Lockheed Hitler
Review by spockofucc ★★½

what the fuck type of name is zorg
Review by pepijn De Jonckheere ★★★

Deel van watchlist van of naar nieuw
Star Wars is niet ver af
Review by danielacgo ★★★★

what do you mean I've been alive for 17 years and I'm only just seeing this
Review by cnniebrwn ★★

i finished this then googled luc besson to see if he'd been me-tooed yet. he had.
that is all.