The Fifth Element

If Michael Bay made this, it would've cost 2 billion dollars, had more shots of Milla Jovavich (working on cars, tossing hair, running, etc all in slow motion), Bruce Willis would wear a thong for comedic value and Chris Tucker would've been a robot. Thank you, Luc Besson. Thank you.

Pure kitsch. Paltry.

The best sci-fi action movie of the 90's that isn't the Matrix. Warts and all, it's so flamboyant and inspired. Feels like a live action cartoon.

If you made a movie based on the fantasies of a nerdy, hyperactive 13-year-old boy, this would be it. Wait, what's that? Luc Besson wrote this when he was a teenager? Well, whaddaya know!

Ages since I saw this, and it doesn't hold up all that well. Sets and setting are its strengths, the whole movie looks 'bandes dessinées' as all hell. But I'd rather read something drawn by Moebius than see a live-action approximation of his style with two-dimensional characters, goofy-ass music and cringeworthy annoying shit instead of 'whoa, cool!' moments. Chris Tucker almost ruins the movie single-handedly.