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July 06, 2002
The Fifth Element
Comedy SF Chase Thriller! The Fifth Element is a perfect being, who along with 4 ancient stones, will save all life in the universe from an ancient evil every 5000 years. This film is set on one of those anniversaries, and Milla Jovovich is the perfect (bodied) one, who gets regenerated by scientists and falls into Bruce Willis' flying taxi-cab. There are evil shape changing aliens (who incidentally provide most of the comic scenes), a despotic mad business empire overlord (Gary Oldman), a camp radio presenter (Chris Tucker), junior and senior priests (more comedy), a blue opera singing alien, all wearing costumes designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier. It's madcap action throughout, and Willis plays his wise-cracking Die Hard hero to hold it all together. If you like the bizarre, and are an SF fan, you'll love this. The performances are excellent, the special effects too, and it all works out in the end. Oh, and that blue opera singer is very good indeed, and provides the soundtrack for one of the best fight scenes ever, with Jovovich high kicking aliens to kingdom come. AE 0.1Posted by se71 at July 6, 2002 11:10 AM
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