"If we make it to the fog we'll be alright".

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2011)

Well, I tried watching this film twice before. The first time I didn't make it past the opening scene with the round metallic looking creatures; they kind of drove me off to a different pursuit. The second time I dozed off, and I won't blame the picture because I was just plain tired. But when I decided to write these reviews, I vowed I would watch each movie start to finish to give it a fair shake. Well, shake time has come and I'm not getting it.
Now I like a good sci-fi flick as well as the next person. But casual references to "Star Wars" isn't going to put this in the same league by any stretch. Not even if the whole picture looks like it was filmed at the Mos Eisley Cantina under new management. The closest parallel to "Star Wars" was Diva Plavalaguna, looking like a cross between an Alien and Bib Fortuna. Now "Aliens", that was another great sci-fi story.
I'll give the picture credit for one creative bit - whoever came up with Gemini Croquet was brilliant - a clever riff of Jiminy Cricket. As in "Yesterday's frog will be tomorrow's prince", an actual quote from the film.
So you have four stones representing the natural Earth elements at the center of the ultimate battle between good and evil. Presumably Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) was the title character and missing fifth element necessary to save the planet. I have to ask myself if Bruce Willis was the one single actor bold enough to portray Korben Dallas, because to get mixed up with this production, you needed a pretty big set of stones yourself.