There’s the beautiful fight scene interspersed with the Diva’s solo, the music both heard by some characters and offering a soundtrack to others.
#Watch the fifth element crackle full#
The direction of the film is fantastic, full of little touches that make the film crackle. Every time I go through airport security, I have to restrain myself from holding up my ID and telling them “Leeloo Dallas, multipass.” The music too is otherworldly, like they took the basic germ of John Williams’ Star Wars scores and shot it up with acid. And the humor! The film remains one of the most quotable films ever made. These characters succeed because they both fit into clear archetypes and yet exist with so much individual color and texture that they feel more like the individuals the archetypes are based upon than characters based upon the archetypes. Even Luke Perry makes an appearance as a random wannabe Indiana Jones assistant during the film’s introduction. Ian Holm channels a strange combination of robed Obi-Wan and stuttering hobbit. Destruction, he insists, is every bit as important as creation.
Gary Oldman’s Zorg is one of the most ludicrously over the top and entertaining villains in science fiction, that particular sort of antagonist in which Alan Rickman used to specialize, the kind who doesn’t just sell the world out but relishes every nuance of his malice. Chris Tucker tags along, being so annoying that you start looking for a sold out Jackie Chan.
The film features Bruce Willis when he still had most of his hair and Milla Jovovich before she exclusively starred in video game adaptations for her husband. There are four elements (not five!) that really make the film stand on its own even thirteen years and six generations of special effects later: the characters, the humor, the music, and the stunning visuals. It moves from set piece to set piece with frantic action, quotable humor, and a shamelessly absurd plot.
#Watch the fifth element crackle movie#
The Fifth Element is the greatest video game movie ever made. Keith Martin, Indra Ove, Bill Reimbold, Vladimir McCrary, Anthony Chinn, Richard Ashton, Nathan Hamlett, Nicole Merry, Mia Frye, Clifton Lloyd-Bryan, Tom 'Tiny' Lister, Scott Woods, Milla Jovovich, David Barrass, Eve Salvail, Ivan Heng, Ian Holm, Paul Priestley, Peter Dunwell, Aron Paramor, Kevin Molloy, Jason Salkey, Kaleem Janjua, Justin Lee Burrows, John Sharian, Riz Meedin, Yui, Robert Alexander, Sonny Caldinez, Natasha Brice, John Bennett, Sarah Carrington, Julie T.Torture who you have to. Dawodu, Kim Chan, David Garvey, Bruce Willis, Michael Culkin, Jean-Luc Caron, Dane Messam, Christopher Fairbank, Robert Bryce, Al Matthews, Martin McDougall, Robert Oates, Eddie Ellwood, Ian Beckett, Vince Pellegrino, Patrick Nicholls, Maiwenn Le Besco, Christopher Adamson, Charlie Creed-Miles, Jerome Blake, Derek Ezenagu, Roy Garcia Singh, Alex Georgijev, Robert Clapperton, John Hughes, Leo Williams, Stewart Harvey-Wilson, Omar Williams, Luke Perry, Cecil Cheng, David Kennedy, Alan Ruscoe, Richard Leaf, Genevieve Maylam, Jerry Ezekiel, Fred Williams, Said Talidi, C. Zeta Graff, Rachel Willis, Stanley Kowalski, Gia Clarke, Josie Perez, J.D.