The Fifth Element Reviews
A lot of money was spent on this film, but $100 million doesn't guarantee a good product. Maybe someone should have thought of spending a few more dollars on a better script.
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| Original Score: 2/4
A hodgepodge of elements that don't comfortably coalesce.
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| Original Score: low 0 out of -4..+4
Film Threat
The story is such a cut-rate kid's sci-fi fairy tale that at one point Evil actually calls Gary Oldman on the phone (and it isn't played for laughs).
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Filmcritic.com
Boring and idiotic
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| Original Score: 2/5
Besson's futuristic fable is flawed by a messy narrative which strains to incorporate far too many grotesque and eccentric characters.
Flick Filosopher
These kinds of attitude are really getting old. If you're gonna be a pig, at least be original about it.
An overblown cosmic comic book.
| Original Score: 2/4
Reel Film Reviews
Loud, long, and overwhelming...
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| Original Score: 2/4
Q Network Film Desk
What an exhilarating, visual feast is Luc Besson's The Fifth Element. And what a mess.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Mr. Besson directs with ceaseless flamboyance and with an obvious enthusiasm for his film's comic book conceits. But the tone of The Fifth Element is often terribly shrill, especially when attention shifts to grating minor characters.
As you sit through the interminable two-hours-plus that constitute The Fifth Element -- a colossally stupid, overbearingly pompous new movie by Luc Besson -- you can expect to become acquainted with boredom on the most elemental level.
Boston Phoenix
After doing much to reduce French cinema to a second-rate clone of bad Hollywood, Besson is seeking to expand to America.
San Francisco Examiner
This is a prodigious something. It's just difficult to say whether that something is good or evil.
Globe and Mail
Top Critic| Original Score: 2.5/4
Common Sense Media
Stylish and very violent sci-fi action flick.
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| Original Score: 3/5
One of the great goofy movies -- a film so preposterous I wasn't surprised to discover it was written by a teenage boy.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Three Movie Buffs
Pure eye-candy and a rollicking good-time.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
