Very Devise Movie (look at other reviews!), I'm on the brilliant side

Rating: 10/10 (10 July 2004)

yada yada...beautiful cinematography..yada yada... Jean Reno, Luc Besson....yada yada.
all reviews are mostly the same so i wont repeat them.
what i will say it that it will be an amazing DVD rental if and only if: you will watch it in the dark with no distractions.
if you will watch it with lights on, while reading a book, surfing the internet, talking to your spouse/girlfriend/kids, this movie (especially extended cut) will be HORRIBLE so stay away.
Besson creates a visual world in this movie and the slow pace necessitates the viewers full attention. that way one becomes lost in the grandeur of the movie and cinematography. If the lights are on while you watch, you cannot be lost in that world. if you aren't focused on the movie but reading People magazine, it seems slow, you miss out on dialogue and slowly you could care less because you don't know what is going on and there are no scenes where there is story exposition.
let;s put it this way, drop any in on any scene of die hard (without ever having scene it before) any one gets the gist of the movie pretty quickly. ditto for pretty woman. people dislike this movie because they don't really turn off the lights, sit quietly, and just watch the movie. as a background movie it is torture.
great movie to watch byoneself on a Saturday night.
8.5