The Fifth Element (1997)

	Director: Luc Besson	AKA Le Cinquiéme élément COUNTRY France Genre Sci-Fi/Action/Comedy NORWEGIAN TITLE Det femte element RUNNING TIME 127 minutes
	Producer: Patrice Ledoux
	Screenwriters: Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Korben Dallas	Bruce Willis	½
Jean-Babtiste Emmanuel Zorg	Gary Oldman	½
Leeloo	Milla Jovovich	½
Victor Cornelius	Ian Holm	½
DJ Ruby Rhod	Chris Tucker	½
Billy	Luke Perry	½
General Munro	Brion James	½
President Lindberg	Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.	½

Review

Luc Besson's follow-up to his 1994 masterpiece Léon is as camp as a British cross-dresser and features one of the least convincing of Gary Oldman's more or less overacted 1990s maniacs, but still manages to turn out as an enjoyably bizarre film experience, largely thanks to striking and often creative visuals, a free-spirited tone, and delightful avant-garde music by Eric Serra. Besson purportedly wrote the script while in his teens, which helps explain the larger-than-life, starwarsish characters and factions populating this dystopian power struggle, but the 38-year-old director also manages to create some moments of true inspiration, such as the brilliant opera house scene, or the creation of the Leeloo character (played with outlandish innovation by Milla Jovovich), whose magical appearance out of an incubator is just about as touching and incredible as those little people who usually appear before us in incubators. It's Jovovich and the wonderfully over-the-top Chris Tucker who steal the show together with Besson's imagination in this halfway cult classic.