The Fifth Element | | Cast : | Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich | | Director : | Luc Besson | | Studio : | Columbia Tristar Hom | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound | | Released Date : | May 09, 1997 | | DVD Released Date : | January 11, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | The best Sci-Fi film EVER. | Content
 | I just saw The Fifth Element about a month ago for the first time. Boy, what had I been missing? It was awesome! It has everything a great action flick needs: Action, romance, comedy, and drama.
As the actors go, Bruce Willis is brilliant as the sometimes sarcastic Korben Dallas, who has my favorite line in the film. "Negative, I am a meat popsicle." He is, as always, sexy, even without trying to be.
Chris Tucker is barely understandable as Ruby Rhod, but hilarious as he screams like a girl and dresses like Prince.
Milla Jovovich, as Leeloo, is probably the most underated actor of this film. She deserves alot more credit than she got for speaking a made up language as if it was the only language she had ever known. I couldn't do it, I know that much. She incporporates this innocence, naiveness, and sexiness all in one character, something that is very hard to do.
Ian Holm as the priest, is great, but I kept thinking "It's Bilbo Baggins!". It sucks I saw LoTR before The Fifth Element.
If you can tell, the movie has alot of Star Wars incorporated into it. The priests dress like Jedi, and New York in 2263 reminds me alot of Corusant.
All in all, if you have not seen this movie, go rent it right now! It is probably the best 3 dollars you'll spend all year. Or buy it. Thats what I did. The Ultimate Edition is great, and has plenty of bonus material to keep you glued to the screen for hours.
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| Rating | | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | Excellent. | Content
| Action, funny, futuristic.
Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and that beautiful Milla Jovovich make this movie what it is: not boring. Is better than many movies going around that are suppose to be consider blockbusters.
I watched twice the first day, and I already have watched the movie 3 times.
Can wait to see all the features that the special edition brings :) |
| Rating | | | Date | July 12, 2005 | | Summary | Fabulous!!! | Content
| I just love this movie. I went to see this movie at the movie theatre and loved it. Especially The Diva. She was great. So as soon as the movie was over I headed to the record shop to get the soundtrack of it so that I could hear the diva again. The movie being ficticiuos has a feel that is very believable. You van really sense that this may be how New York may feel in the future. I really enjoyed the extras on the DVD specially the Diva. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 12, 2005 | | Summary | Where did he learn to negotiate like that? | Content
| First time I watched this it was one of those three star things that you could take or leave. Yes it had all the elements (except the fifth) that make for a good shoot-um-up space thing. But I just looked at it as an action movie.
For some reason this movie can grow on you and you find yourself anticipating the next move. Then you see things that you did not see the first time. Then you start to mouth the words. Soon this turns into a five star movie with a plot, good guys, bad guys, and good bad guys. Soon you start looking in your auto-wash to see if you left anything in there.
An ancient thereat of dome looms over the earth. An ancient religion keeps the secret of the doom and the secret of the defense (the fifth element.) Prophecy turns into reality and it is up to Major Koeben Dallas (Bruce Willis) to find the fifth element and save the earth.
Will he be able to do this and at what emotional expense?
What is the fifth element?
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| Rating | | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | 'Fifth Element ' a treat, a terrific example of what a sci-fi film SHOULD be... | Content
| Director Luc Besson creates an entirely fresh and new world, and fills it with amazingly comfortable features that mimic and mock today's society. Then he weaves a great story through it, leaving the viewer ultimately impressed and satisfied.
At its bottom line is the basic good versus evil plotline: ancient curse calls for ultimate evil to strike Earth every 5,000 years, and can only be defeated by the combining of rocks representing nature's four basic elements with the powers of a super-being called the Fifth Element. Bruce Willis plays Korben Dallas, a retired special ops soldier-turned cab driver. He is recalled to military duty to find the four stones and this mysterious fifth element; then, he must use them to save the universe from eternal darkness. Oh, and he has 48 hours to do it. Piece o'cake, right?
While the plot is somewhat predictable, it's how you get to the ending that matters, and this journey is a beaut. Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) is delightful as the "perfect" being who knows how to save us all, yet doesn't understand the basic concepts of life in the 22nd century (the multi-pass ID card, basic human modesty, and, unfortunately, the balance of good and evil she has been created to preserve). Jovovich plays the part superbly, leading to some good minor plot twists and a couple of well-placed laughs.
Dallas and Leeloo end up on a distant planet, searching a cruise ship for the blue-skinned hip-hop opera diva (Maïwenn Le Besco) who has the stones. Along the way, they fend off a platoon of shapeshifting alien mercenaries, and their employer Zorg (played surprisingly well by Gary Oldham), the world's richest man; he is in league with this ultimate evil. Then. there's Fr. Vito Cornelius (Ian Holm), the priest who, in trying to help Leeloo fulfill her mission, somehow fails to figure out that Dallas is on his side and bumbles his way along, mostly getting in the way.
Providing comic relief is Ruby Rhod (Chris Tucker), who hosts the most popular radio show in the galaxy -- just ask him. On the air, Rhod acts like RuPaul on a quadruple latte with peanut M&Ms on the side, and a prescription-strength No-Doz with a Mountain Dew chaser. Off-air, he adds smoking, drinking, a huge ego and constant womanizing to the mixture. It's hilarious, but sometimes a bit too much. It's almost a relief when Ruby turns into a complete chicken as the fighting starts.
Once the stones are found, the final race starts for the ancient temple to save the universe or allow evil to take over. The climax and epilogue are predictable but well-designed, and tie up the loose ends nicely.
By the way, Corbin's mother (only heard over the phone) is delightful, and her calls are timed well in the story. Nice touch.
Other highlights include the concert performance of the diva (sung by Sarah Brightman - wow!), the overall nastiness and callousness Oldham gives to Zorg's persona, and oh, by the way, the cool, understated way in which Willis portrays a former special ops officer stuck in a world in which everything is blowing up around him. He never frazzles, even when a "somewhat major" plot twist threatens to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Overall, The Fifth Element is a great ride with a terrific cast, great writing, and special effects that enhance the movie instead of taking it over. Four-and-a-half stars, with a half-star deducted for the over-exposure to Ruby Rhod.
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