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About The Fifth Element

Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) just wants to live his quiet life as a cab driver in 23rd century NYC, but his former military bosses have a different plan in mind for him once he's chosen work alongside a mysterious woman named Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) in a secret undercover mission to find a hidden cosmic "ultimate weapon" and save the Earth from total destruction. This visually inventive, candy-coated, and gleefully over-the-top flick has production design by Jean "Moebius" Giraud and Jean-Claude Mézières, costumes by Jean Paul Gaultier, and co-stars Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, and Chris Tucker in an unforgettable performance. [126 min; sci-fi, action; English]

"The Fifth Element is a bold, bright, loud, rowdy, lush, extravagant science-fiction space opera that wears its heart on its garish sleeve." — Ed Travis, Cinapse

"A jaw-dropping, mind-blowing pop epic that gives you everything from the slam-bang sci-fi fantasy of Star Wars to the inspired slapstick lunacy of the Marx Brothers." — Joe Leydon, The Moving Picture Show

"An entertaining tangle of pop aesthetic and comic book myth." — Rita Kempley, Washington Post

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