The Fifth Element

"The Fifth Element"
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence & language
Starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker and Ian Holm

CineSight Rating ** 1/2

Korben Dallas (Willis) is an ex-marine who drives a cab - in the 23rd century. Reluctantly he's dragged back into service for one more operation: to recover a set of mystical stones that will protect the earth from impending evil. In the process, he collects a team of sidekicks who often seem to hinder more than they help - a clone who looks exactly like Milla Jovovich; a bumbling priest (Holm) and his even more bumbling acolyte.

On the other side we have Zorg (Oldman), a futuristic mercenary Bill Gates, determined to prepare for the arrival of the evil one. And just to complicate things a little more we have a group of guys in rubber suits running around pretending to be disgruntled alien warriors.

DVD Features

* Standard & Widescreen Formats
* Scene Selections
* Languages: English, Spanish
* Subtitles: English, Spanish

CineSight Comments, Bloopers & Trivia

The thing I love about "The Fifth Element" is that it doesn't take itself or it's genre too seriously. There are continual parodies or references to such movies as "Star Wars", "Blade Runner", "Indiana Jones" and so on. The pace is fast and frantic, kept up by Willis' "Die Hard" style of saving the world - which basically consists of destroying everything in sight so the bad guys can't get it! And Gary Oldman plays a wonderfully campy villain. A perfect popcorn adventure from director Luc Besson, who previously gave us "The Professional", where Oldman played a much nastier bad guy.

* The 'unbreakable' glass Milla's character punches through, is already cracked when she hits it.

* The explosion in the main hall of the Fhloston cruise ship was the largest indoor explosion ever filmed, and almost got out of control.

* The diva's name, Plavalaguna, means blue lagoon in Serbian (which is Milla's native language). Her first film appearance was in "Return to the Blue Lagoon".