A great tour de force...

Rating: 8/10 (12 February 2017)

The fifth Element was the biggest European movie at the time, made by the excellent french director Luc Besson, who had the idea for this film already as he was 14 years young, which culminated in a colorful, fun, but also very well made space opera movie with a very unique tone.
Technically this movie is fantastically made, great cinematography and lighting, the set-design is creative and helps building the futuristic world. The visual effects (for the most part) stood the test of time fairly well and work for the movie.
But the best technical aspect of this movie is the pitch-perfect editing. Everythings cut with precise and flawless timing, so that the action, and comedy works as well as the more dramatic scenes.
Also the costume design for every character (even in the background) is great and fit the characters well.
The soundtrack is also nice to listen to, and one of the most memorable parts of the film is when the characters listen to a alien-singer inside an opera.
The actors also do a great job and clearly had a lot of fun being in the movie. Bruce Willis is cool and likable (but also human) as always and a great leading man, and Milla Jovovich can be seen in one of her best roles to date.
It's loud and fun, but also dramatic and emotional, it's technically well made and told and knows that it's nothing more but entertaining...