A landmark film - return of the space opera

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2000)

This film must be considered a landmark film in the same vein as Star Wars and other true space operas. My immediate impression of Fifth Element was "Cool! Somebody else remembers 'Heavy Metal'". Luc Besson deserves much more credit for this film than he has received. Hopefully, Luc's film represents a flowering of the science fiction space opera. A wonderful companion film to Fifth Element would be a big screen treatment of 'Stranger in a Strange Land' - directed, of course, by Luc Besson himself. Wonderful, visionary film to say the least!