![]() Besson wanted to shoot the film in France, but suitable facilities could not be found filming took place in London and Mauritania instead. To accomplish this, Dallas joins forces with her to recover four mystical stones essential for the defence of Earth against the impending attack of a malevolent cosmic entity.īesson started writing the story that was developed as The Fifth Element when he was 16 years old he was 38 when the film opened in cinemas. Primarily set in the 23rd century, the film's central plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas (Willis), a taxicab driver and former special forces major, after a young woman (Jovovich) falls into his cab. It stars Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, and Chris Tucker. Nevertheless, there are some petits bon mots in the film, such as evil guy Gary Oldman’s neo-Hitler look.The Fifth Element is a 1997 English-language French science fiction action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, as well as co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. Admittedly, Gaultier’s outre duds are interesting when worn by, say, Naomi Campbell, but on the players here, these peculiarities are off-putting. While there is nothing wrong with mixing tried-and-true story forms and whipping them into an entertaining and appealing scenario, screenwriters Besson and Robert Mark Kamen have put together a hyper-busy, threadbare and, ultimately, incoherent narrative that reduces The Fifth Element to the skimpy proportions of a fashion show for designer Jean-Paul Gaultier’s haute couture stitchings. ![]() ![]() In this case, he’s not the son of a desert-area farmer but a 23rd-century cab driver named John McClane, er, Korben Dallas. As usual, the more complicated the story, the more simplistic the conflict, and, once again, it’s the same special effects story, a battle between good and evil.Īnd, true to mythic form, the savior of the world is a rather unlikely chap. Undeniably, co-writer and director Besson has embarked on an ambitious, big-screen mission here and has spliced together story elements from a number of sci-fi or adventure forms. Unwittingly, Gaumont has served up a messy U.S.-style blockbuster movie, which, as we are constantly reminded by the xenophobic cineastes of the French embargo crowd, is a culturally corrupting influence. It’s so chaotically clamorous that one fears its bombastic shock waves may have already caused the greats of French cinema (from Melies to Truffaut) to turn over in their graves. While one can understand that the Cannes Film Festival bends over backward to program a French film for opening night, this Luc Besson project is a generally dimwitted generic monstrosity of misconnected gadgetry and soulless techno-gunk. Unfortunately, the four main elements of this Gaumont production - noise, costumes, production design, special effects - are not invigorated by a necessary and woefully missing fifth element, namely a coherent and appealing story. The four main elements of life - earth, air, water, fire - are threatened by a fifth element in Gaumont’s The Fifth Element, which Sony will distribute in North America. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below: theaters, days after the film premiered as the opening-night title at the 50th Cannes Film Festival. On May 9, 1997, Luc Besson unveiled sci-fi actioner The Fifth Element in U.S.
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