It's probably been a good five to ten years since my last watch, but I found its desperate tonal elements still create something unique and engaging. Revisiting this film on Blu-ray is great fun too.
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Instead my friends and I opted for 'The Fifth Element' and now, nearly twenty years later, we know which movie was actually worth the hype. 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park' was in the process of crushing (for the time) box office records and was completely sold out. I discovered 'The Fifth Element' purely by accident on Memorial Day Weekend in 1997. That said, if you do jump into writer/director Luc Besson's marvelously rendered world, it's a bit like watching a non-noir 'Blade Runner' set almost exclusively in the daytime with overt comedic elements. Like a Baz Luhrmann movie, it requires a bit more of an audience buy-in than more tonally consistent productions.
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It is, all in one breath, post-modern in a very '90s way and also one hundred percent sincere and earnest. I can see how 'The Fifth Element' might not be a flick for everyone - it blends together space opera genre tropes with wild tonal flourishes, a large cast of characters, and new age spirituality. Can humanity be saved in time? And, after centuries of brutal warfare, should it? One minute Korben's looking for his next fare the next he's stuck on mission he doesn't want, and falling in love with the Fifth Element, who has taken on the human form of Milla Jovovich. In the middle of this multi-POV pursuit we have ex-military officer Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis), a down on his luck New York City cab driver. One side wants to save the world the other destroy it.
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Set 300 or so years in the future, on the cusp of evil's return, the friendly aliens race towards Earth to save it once again, but are shot down by bad mercenary aliens (hired by Gary Oldman, who else?) which sets off a race between the human government, a secret order of priests sworn to protect the Fifth Element, and a various baddies set on collecting the missing stones. Evil has Gary Fucking Oldman on its payroll. In a universe where the celestial embodiment of pure evil threatens to destroy the world every 5,000 years, a friendly alien species has developed a weapon that combines four stones powered by the four forces of nature - earth, wind, water, and fire - and a special person - the Fifth Element - to stave off The End Times. 'The Fifth Element' is a movie best experienced rather than described, so I'll do my best to keep this short.