Original Comic Book MovieAmped Up and Mind Expanding Fun

Rating: 9/10 (3 April 2015)

Imaginative and Visually Vibrant Super-Hero-Sci-Fi-Philosophical-Mind Bending Movie from the always Interesting and Entertaining World of Luc Besson. This is Comic-Book Level Stuff and Brilliantly Dumbs-Down a lot of Heavy, Heady Things for the Action Crowd.
The Director Spices the Space/Time/Evolutional Things up, maybe a bit too Much, with Gangland Drug Stuff that Makes this a Hybrid that doesn't Blend all that well, but the Film is just so Enchanting and Enlightening (albeit in sophomoric terms), that the Viewer is Mesmerized from the Get-Go.
Scarlett Johansson, Fresh from Her Super-Hero Stint in the Avengers (2012), is a Natural as the Unwitting Transitional Link between Man and "Super"Man. This Extravagant Exercise in Pop Culture Excess is too Rich to be Discarded as just another Action, Summer Movie and is a Good Example how Things so Familiar can be Taken to a New Level.
Sure to have Bible-Thumpers and Fundamentalist Types Screaming Blasphemy, it does have a Secular Slant and there is one Scene that is a Poke in the Eye and a Direct Reference to the "Sistine Chapel".
But if taken as Fanciful Fiction, no one can Deny this Movie is Nothing if not a Different, Diverting, Display of Artistic Flourishes and a Fun Time to be had for those that are Not Highly Discriminating.