Bam!

Rating: 10/10 (15 June 2001)

I've seen so many people bashing this movie I nearly bashed my moniter as well. This is definitely one of my favorites--you can't compare it to anything and you can't take it seriously. It's the simple tale of good against evil--and many people have been saying that the whole 'love wins' thing is really cheesy. Well, I have a few theories about that--
First of all, I know it was a little bogus, how they were all on love's side but they killed a whole lot of people. But--'protect life, until death'--they only killed the people who's only mission was to destroy life. It's not perfectly sensible, but close enough.
And second of all, when you think about it, love is exactly opposite to evil. So no wonder it was the element to begin with. But I like romance in general, so I guess that's just my cheesy-ness shining through. Please--this is just supposed to be a simple, fun, comedy/action with a hint of beautiful romance, and is not to be taken so seriously. It aggravated people to see that it was being compared to Star Wars, and I agree--Star Wars is a classic, and, well, The Fifth Element isn't, though it always will be for me.
I honestly don't see how anyone could hate this movie enough to rate it below a 4. There's nothing horribly wrong with it, the plot could be patched up but it's not boring or confusing, at least not horribly so. I could watch this movie over and over if I wanted to, which I would do if it wouldn't classify me as some sort of psycho by all the movie bashers. Milla Jovovich was amazing, Bruce was pretty good--I hadn't seen many of his movies before this one, Gary Oldman was quite eccentric in his performance and did a good job of being, well, evil. The costumes were kind of freaky, especially on Zorgs part, but there were no really cheap looking computer special effects--I'm NOT saying they didn't use a computer, I'm just saying they didn't look extremely stupid and out of place, like in some movies I've seen.
The movie was, all in all, fun, brilliant, and beautiful, though I think it takes quite an open mind (or maybe just being stupid, as I am) to really like it. They could have developed the love between Leeloo and Korben, though. Good movie. I'd give it at least an 8/10.