There's something about this movie I just can't put to words.

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2003)

When I first saw this movie, on a saturday, in December, in 1997, I was
enthralled. From the opening scene, earth, glowing in hue, rising slowly, you know that this is not 'just another movie.' This is a movie someone actually took time with. Took care to get all the detail right, make the screenplay work, keep the graphics toned down... all at once.
The Fifth Element pulls this off perfectly. The casting is superb, everyone fits, from Sir Ian Holme, to Chris Tucker (in his first film appearance) to Bruce Willis himself, replaying his role from Twelve Monkeys (another wonderful film), one begins to realise that Willis plays the sensitive character very well indeed. This was teh first Besson film I had seen at this point, and suffice to say, it is his best (Leon, and Le Grande Bleu comming in tied for second).
Most stunning though is the plot. At first glance the plot seems like an excuse to have tons of actions scenes, but it's not that way at all. this is a love story, not an action film. But still, it's more then that. It's funny, it's got great one liners (Willis steals the show here), the timming is beyond quesiton some of the best I've ever seen (you'll ahve to see for yourself what I'm talking about). Did I mentiont he cast? Oldman is excellent, playing the villian once more- I'd just like to have seen Jean Reno in this!
Back to the plot though, after reading the original screenplay I found that the movie is compltely different. Besson must have been able to see these little
changes, and added them accordingly, jsut because they feel right (for example, int eh original screenplay, Oldman gets away- but in the movie, he suffers a fate simialir to that he befell in Leon).
I could go on for hours, but I wont. All I can say is this: If you don't see this movie, you are missing out on one the best films ever made.