Movies are pretty cool sometimes.

Rating: 7/10 (25 August 2009)

Chris Tucker's performance as the radio host Ruby Rhod is a lot for the mind to deal with. His manner of speech, appearance, mannerisms, and personality add up to a great deal of mental stimulation. The signal coming off of Ruby Rhod is so high it may be subject to the conceptual equivalent of audio clipping. One might think about a normal person, "Oh, there they are. I know who that is. I know what they are saying to me. I know why they are moving their body in that fashion." With Ruby Rhod, one thinks, "Ahhh! Oh my God, what is that? Turn it off! Is that a person? What's going on? Someone stop that!"
It is also strange that a radio personality plays such a big part in the plot. If you or I were to make a movie about people in the future meeting aliens and saving the world and so forth we might not think to include a hilarious shrieking gay stereotype.
With Gary Oldman's performance as Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg, similar problems occur, though constrained to his accent and the manner in which Jean-Paul Gaultier has dressed him. Some English people, like Mr. Oldman, have an unsophisticated understanding of the English language as it is spoken by Americans.