He doesn't understand how she ended up crashing into his cab, but he's immediately smitten. And when the police start ordering him to turn her over . . . Away he goes. A street scene from The Fifth Element. While the story itself is ordinary action movie material, director Luc Besson gives the movie an off-kilter sensibility that makes virtually every scene fresh and exciting.
Stewardesses dress in cleavage revealing uniforms.
Benevolent aliens are hulking, armored creatures with tiny mechanical heads. Apartments are 6' by 10' cubicles with showers and refrigerators that slide into the walls. Hot dog vendors drift by open apartment windows. The surface of the Earth is enveloped in a soupy fog. Radio talk show hosts prance like Prince clones.