Don't waste your time: this fails at every level

Rating: 2/10 (29 November 2014)

There's a fine line between entertaining camp and complete rubbish, but Luc Besson hasn't found it. The Fifth Element breaks the 11th Commandment: it confuses, and then some.
All of us are prepared to give more or less anyone the element of doubt, but if, after about ten minutes and after at least five pseudo-stylish modes of film-making your average viewer has absolutely no idea of what is going on and, more seriously, no interest either, all bets are off.
The Fifth Element is a mess and, worse, a boring mess. From the off from the stylised French/Italian film-making on to the silly pseudo futuristic scenes creating the superwoman, this film tries to hit some kind of target and misses by a country mile. Don't bother.