Entertaining for its time

Rating: 2/10 (19 February 2012)

Visually, the fifth element is an enjoyable colorful experience with a very imaginative production design-- nonetheless it feels very camp and unreal. Story wise, I find it very trite at its core. You are told a wonderful science fiction premise but then are delivered a plot that feels too juvenile, too easy, with so many of those one-of-a-time coincidences that happen only in (certain) movies. I expected much more from this movie but felt disappointed. Maybe it's the fact that I watched it for the very first time on 2012; but then again, a very-good movie is good independently from its time. Gary Oldman is great, Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis and Milla fits perfectly in her role. The rest of the cast is at the same level of this movie-- their dialogues and personalities don't seem to have any other purpose than to portrait worn out characters from played-out stories. I won't try to argue any further that the movie is bad, this is just my opinion, but I feel it is impossible to rate this movie a 10 from any perspective. So what do I feel is a timeless and amazing story? Twelve Monkeys for example. I think it is worth mentioning it.