Action Packed Fun Filled Adventure

Rating: 8/10 (2 August 2015)

The Fifth Element story is your basic good vs. evil theme. Every five thousand years a Great Evil appears with the sole purpose to destroy all life. The film opens on an excavation site in Egypt in 1914, a group of aliens called the Mondoshawans arrive to take the only weapon that can defeat the Great Evil the fifth element, due to the upcoming wars on Earth. The fifth element and four stones work together to create the weapon of organic life that can defeat the Great Evil. They leave a key with a priest for him to protect and pass down to each following generation and prepare them for the return of the Great Evil.
In the year 2263 the Great Evil finally appears before Earth to try and destroy all life. There is a quick interaction with a battleship that introduces you to the power the Great Evil has. The next scene is when the view is introduced to Leeloo. In a Mondoshawans ship headed for earth the ship is attached by a group of outlawed shape shifting Mangalore's. The Mondoshawans ship crashes, but earth's scientists who are able to recover a portion of the fifth element and us a device to recreate it. There you seen the form of the fifth element start to take shape and you realize it is a human women and her name is Leeloo. Leeloo the perfect being is escapes the lab with a daring jump off the side of a building and falls into Korban Dalles taxi.
Korban Dalles is a retired high ranking military man, who is now a divorced cab drive. When Leeloo falls into Korban's taxi he initially tries to comply with the officers who are chasing Leeloo, but gives into her pleads and a out of control fling car chase takes place where Korban Dalles outruns the law so he is able to deliver Leeloo to the Priest Vito Cornelius to help search for the four stones.
From there a the crazy adventure begins, with Korban Dalles and Leeloo, with Priest Vito Cornelius in tow to search for the four stones before the Great Evil reaches Earth. The trio end up on a cruise in Fhloston Paradise to meet up with the Diva Plavalaguna who is the protector of the stones. In comes Ruby Rhod who is a outrageous radio talk show host with an explosive sexual personality. As Ruby Rhod and Korban are watch the performance of the Diva, the Mangalore's attack and kill the Diva's entourage in search of the stones to deliver back to Zorg. Zorg in turn is in turn working with the Great Evil to eliminate the only weapon that can defeat it. This is the first scene where you see the power of Leeloo the Supreme Being. With the back drop of the Diva's opera performance Leeloo enters into a raging battle with the group of Mangalore's who killed the Diva's entourage. The battle spills into the rest of the ship, where the Mangalore's try to take the ship hostage, and a bomb is set. Korban Dalles, with the help of Ruby Rhod and Cornelius wage war against the Mangalores on the ship. The battle extreme by any movie standards, but fits perfectly within the movies theme, and succeeds at elaborating the good vs. evil plot. Then a bomb is detected by the ship and there is a hilarious colorful exodus of the ship by all the passengers. With Korban rescuing Leeloo and the group departing seconds before the ship explodes.
Now on their way to Egypt to activate the weapon, Leeloo learns of the ugly past of the war with the last 300 or so years of pain and suffering the human race has inflicted on one another. She loose her faith in humanity and her will to live. Once arriving in Egypt Korban, Ruby, and Cornelius frantically figure out how to activate the stones, once activated Korban places Leeloo in the center. However, the weapon has yet to activate. Korban pleads with Leeloo telling her there is much to live for, and finally confesses his love for her, which reestablishes her faith and the ultimate weapon activates and destroys the Great Evil seconds before it consumes all life on Earth.
The Fifth Element is a fast pace action pack film. It's the perfect movie to watch without much thought involved. It's entertaining, and provides a number of moments where the views will be on the edge of their seat or laughing at the oddities happening with in the film.