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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 Gary Oldman Ian Holm Milla Jovovich Chris Tucker Luke Perry Brion James Tom Lister Jr. Lee Evans Charlie Creed-Miles Tricky John Neville John Bluthal Mathieu Kassovitz 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…

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Review by Cole Bradley ★★★★★ 6

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 DirkH ★★ 31

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 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 Katie ★★★★

LOVE!!! IS!!! WORTH!!! SAVING!!!
Review by Travis Lytle ★★★½ 10

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 Rosy ★★★★

Mental
Review by Isabella Calliope ★★★★

I used to say that I want a Jim to my Pam, but now I can update that to how I want a Korben to my Lelu.
This is so worth the watch, but really watch! If you don’t see and feel the magic, you might want to retrieve your soul from Gary Oldman’s spaceship. Ok so the spesh FX are dated. Give Besson a chance, will ya? Not to mention everyone else on the team...cough, cough...the supreme being (proof that God is a woman)!
Review by Mathew ★★★★★

I could watch this film on a loop until the end of my life and never get bored.
All for that moment with LeeLoo & The Diva!❤️
I dont care how flawed this film may be - i cant help but smile, laugh & fall in love with the film & characters over and over again
Within my top 10 films of all time and i aint even ashamed!
Review by Aiaan Makarov ★★★½

два часа пролетели незаметно, ни разу не чекнул. прекрасный 'feel-good' фильм на века, очень рад, что наконец-то в первый раз посмотрел его. к такому сложно подобрать слова, такое надо просто видеть.
буду пересматривать.

роль Кассовица убойная)
Review by Jordan Schmidt ★★★★

When I was younger, I started liking a lot of things out of defiance, because my folks didn't like them. Led Zeppelin, fried calamari, painting my nails...and the Fifth Element. Which my dad...loathes.

Several watches later, I think I like this one even more.

Luc Besson is emulating Terry Gilliam here, in making something bizarre that fits through a stencil, while still retaining its loud, colorful, insane makeup. A lot is so out-of-bounds that it works, and a lot of the milieu of the world is just so well-thought-out. It's a dystopia that, for once, isn't completely cynical (at least not above the surface), and it's a fantasy story that doesn't end in complete tragedy.

It's also very similar to…
Review by Pamalee Seters ★★★★★

A FUN SCI-FI ADVENTURE WITH EXTRA CHEESE.
Review by Camille ★★★½

pure nonsense! ruby rhod is an icon
Review by syelpe ★★★

10 minutes into the movie they’ve already said the title of the film twice. How the hell was Leeloo a supreme being but needed to be carried around and loved in order to do anything?
Review by Julien ★★★★

"Moultipass"