Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. (imdb)
Genres: Sci-fi, Action, Adventure
Country: France
Directed By: Luc Besson
Written By: Luc Besson, Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mézières
Starring: Mathieu Kassovitz, Ethan Hawke, John Goodman, Clive Owen, Rutger Hauer, Sam Spruell, Rihanna, Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Kris Wu, Emilie Livingston
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1. Based On Comic (public: moderated by mpowell - 14 stars)
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3. Cinema Sins (public: moderated by Phantom Nook - 2 stars)
4. Alexandre Desplat (composer) (public: moderated by djross)
5. 90th Academy Reminder List (2017) (public: moderated by cowfrappe)
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Jenny82 | 66 12% |
| Nov 17 | DocBrowne | 85 80% |
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| Nov 17 |  |
DaWolfey | 30 45% |
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A plodding, boring story with characters that weren't interesting. The entire Valerian/Lauraline love subplot was pointless and neither character grew or changed - they were as they were at the beginning.. The main plot was contaminated by this lack of change, which made it too seem pointless and uninteresting.
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| Nov 14 | sinefilcocuk | 6 43% |
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The Beast | 5 35% |
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A terrible movie, with distractedly bad acting, script, unnecessarily confusing plot considering what's happening. Points for world-building on par with any star wars or dune movies. Although not explored nearly as in-depth, this is where all of the charm is. A true epic, but not a good one.
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| Nov 13 | SpeedMarque | 65 57% |
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Acting isn’t great but special effects and story brings this home for me.
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| Nov 11 | kappeuter | 60 % |
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JeremyJahns | 2 16% |
| Nov 10 | finisher | 60 55% |
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| Nov 10 | epicbud | 3 4% |
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| Nov 09 | codanc | 70 41% |
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MaxVonSydow | 30 7% |
| Nov 02 | Varcour | 40 38% |
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Very pretty, but shallow story and characters. Acting wasn't the greatest either.
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| Oct 29 |  |
defiance13 | 75 83% |
| Oct 28 |  |
Jaifman | 75 50% |
| Oct 27 |  |
funky89 | 62 16% |
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ManyPany | 60 26% |
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joachimt | 60 36% |
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KeyUtkan | 60 34% |
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Plot is obvious, main roles are miscasts. Antagonist did make himself clear as a bad guy waaaay earlier. Great visuals and decent world building but wrong cast and wrong screenplay.
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ana_moft | 56 61% |
| Oct 11 | vesuvius | 30 6% |
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| Oct 09 |  |
anarchistica | 22 5% |
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Valerian starts out promising with interesting worldbuilding and aliens. Sadly, the movie goes downhill after 5 minutes. The following "white Avatar" bit completely fails to set up the story. Next we meet Valerian, the ridiculously miscast DeHaan. He's supposed to be handsome and charismatic, but he's a creepy mumbling boy. The next two hours you have to sit through a really bad script that alternates between nonsensical and predictable. It feels like a Star Wars prequel.
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| Oct 09 |  |
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| Oct 07 | hishame | 70 65% |
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| Oct 03 | blummer | 55 15% |
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| Oct 03 | m0gwai | 70 % |
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| Oct 01 | TheBreather | 40 4% |
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| Sep 30 | Thejaff | 62 22% |
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| Aug 24 | Andan | 65 62% |
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marcelvidal | 49 17% |
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| Aug 16 | meduenin | 80 46% |
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Orfonso | 68 38% |
| Aug 06 | Eythor | 80 70% |
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Didn’t even bother to finish this poorly directed and written movie. The acting was just terrible. The visuals is about the only thing going.
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Squin | 60 28% |
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CStuckmann | 75 24% |
| Jul 09 | Eski-or-die | 80 76% |
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Sesilya | 66 33% |
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themadelf66 | 81 77% |
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RealMacgyver | 80 73% |
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damper | 60 51% |
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paulofilmo | 67 39% |
| Jun 17 | arvalin | 70 % |
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LolaMontes | 57 26% |
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| Jun 17 | Parasite | 40 23% |
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| Jun 14 |  |
TheShiznit | 3 39% |
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Mist600 | 59 20% |
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Visually wonderfully inventive & stunning (See on largest screen poss, focus on spectacle). BUT awfully miscast & acted by 2 leads. Moments where she MIGHT've (with few years more acting & lessons + good co-star) been Ok. He = TOTAL bust. Dont know source comics but as written here (Charming, dangerous playboy-rogue; Han+Bond) this smug, skinny, aging BOY (eyebags) just doesnt fit AT ALL. Perfect in Cure 4 Wellness but not 4 this. Alts: Taron E, Alden E, W Smith, MMcC, 20yrs ago: Willis / Tom C?
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| Jun 11 | fatsor | 65 23% |
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| Jun 11 | Barthez | 85 80% |
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| Jun 09 | critcher001 | 95 79% |
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| Jun 09 | richard_1979 | 81 48% |
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mucow | 60 32% |
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obinice | 90 67% |
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allenrankin | 54 25% |
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Tony Irwin | 14 14% |
| May 31 | cblur21 | 58 34% |
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| May 30 | ForkofDeath | 60 27% |
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| May 29 |  |
cendos | 70 66% |
| May 28 | AmayaQuiroz | 83 21% |
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| May 28 | Jackattack | 99 72% |
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| May 26 | fake_of_oz | 50 37% |
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| May 25 | kerryland | 75 31% |
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Filled with great ideas. Looks fabulous. Fun.
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Minorsage | 80 88% |
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Fun and visually rich. The story is a bit weak, the dialogue horrible, but worse is the love story. That was awful, just awful.
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| May 23 |  |
easydiff | 29 17% |
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Luc Besson continues to throw away ideas as bits of background world-building things entire other movies would be centered on. He still can't plot worth a damn or create a character who resonates, but the first 10 minutes of this movie are so transcendent you can *almost* forgive him.
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| May 22 | safir | 74 23% |
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| May 20 | jammerjoint | 65 14% |
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| May 19 |  |
boobs | 40 35% |
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Anja | 60 48% |
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| May 14 |  |
Jansett | 66 45% |
| May 13 |  |
normatic | 50 16% |
| May 12 |  |
Anomaly1 | 61 30% |
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Besson clearly has a lot of love for this material, but maybe also a bit TOO much love, to where he's blinded from some of the weaker elements. For instance, DeHaan does not make a good lead, the dialogue is often asinine, and this isn't exactly the best plot for a big blockbuster film. The intro and first appearance of the extra-dimensional market were cool, but otherwise even the visuals and effects were profoundly generic.
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| May 12 |  |
Adam P-D | 30 26% |
| May 12 |  |
AFK | 3 10% |
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Özkann | 10 4% |
| May 09 | summerbag | 60 13% |
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| May 08 | Colesslawzz | 70 15% |
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The opening montage is the best part of this film. Not to say the rest of the experience was terrible. In the end it was the abysmal acting by the male and female lead. Lack of chemistry and terrible dialogue ruined an otherwise good experience.
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| May 08 | beeblebrox | 74 21% |
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| May 06 | vespertinial | 60 25% |
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| May 05 | Sinuhet | 80 50% |
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| May 05 | stengaarrd | 75 62% |
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| May 04 | toadlicker | 40 4% |
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| May 04 |  |
targos21 | 60 36% |
| May 04 |  |
cengizermis | 75 62% |
| May 01 | John Milton | 50 13% |
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| Apr 29 |  |
gracesake | 50 5% |
| Apr 29 |  |
hotsake | 54 36% |
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Great world building, juvenile story and dialogue, generally bad acting, and two unlikable leads. Lots to like here but equally lots that I really didn't as well.
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| Apr 29 |  |
SheaMoran | 68 39% |
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Watched on 29/04/2018
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| Apr 28 | Warren Shum | 90 82% |
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| Apr 28 | peterbmacd | 48 21% |
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| Apr 28 |  |
toko | 78 22% |
| Apr 27 | spoiledff7 | 75 51% |
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| Apr 27 | reeses87 | 70 30% |
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| Apr 26 |  |
alakota | 64 28% |
| Apr 25 | ThePainter | 65 12% |
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| Apr 24 | Reigntall | 40 11% |
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| Apr 24 | tomme2009 | 100 91% |
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| Apr 23 | pepespray | 60 4% |
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| Apr 22 | dtmac529 | 60 9% |
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| Apr 22 | ansser13 | 60 8% |
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| Apr 21 | Astral100 | 90 78% |
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| Apr 19 | fictionfitz | 49 20% |
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LordBeefJerk | 30 13% |
| Apr 17 | kjones77 | 40 6% |
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| Apr 17 |  |
Okkervil | 38 27% |
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The opening 20 minutes are by far Valerians best - partly due to some interesting world building, but primarily because no one really says anything! The remaining 2 hours are blighted by Bessons distractingly terrible screenplay. Oddly undramatic, visually interesting in parts, with some cool concepts, although too chocked full with half-baked ideas, it’s also sloppily edited with clear lines referring to stuff that must have been cut. DeHann was a horrible piece of casting also.
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psych0naut (The Socialist Standard) | 70 55% |
| Apr 17 | cfkloss | 6 28% |
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| Apr 17 | sinabsinthe | 15 20% |
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| Apr 13 |  |
Harmonica | 72 35% |
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A Luc Besson sci-fi flick, with all the hallmarks and hang-ups that entails. Dumb plot, smart quips and breathless, smoothly choreographed action sequences with rich, dynamic visuals. In the final third, the fluffy sci-fi gives way to trite political grandstanding. Rihanna appears in a male-gazy fan-service interlude only to decry her oppression moments later. That Laureline is excised from the title despite her greater badassery and empathy, largely sums up Besson's wishy-washy social ethics.
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| Apr 13 | mzSTZG4kMctu | 60 28% |
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dourface | 60 45% |
| Apr 13 | Crupin | 41 10% |
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| Apr 11 | Loser_bs | 75 56% |
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basalganglia | 33 64% |
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SeanBerndorff | 55 34% |
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aurora | 33 18% |
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savarain | 69 29% |
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| Apr 06 | eattherude | 76 53% |
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| Apr 05 | Hooker367 | 85 72% |
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| Apr 04 | ribtin | 60 30% |
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| Apr 03 | naoisem | 55 17% |
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nickv | 37 11% |
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whisperin_al | 75 36% |
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fth1121 | 65 7% |
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Wiche | 66 46% |
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sheepslasher | 2 34% |
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Flashy, pretty, unforgivably boring. Never pushed toward either stiffness or kitsch hard enough to be interesting or fun. A swing an' a miss.
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| Mar 30 | RTCritics | 51 36% |
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| Mar 30 |  |
llama | 35 14% |
| Mar 30 |  |
drdutw | 75 47% |
| Mar 29 |  |
KasperL | 75 77% |
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Besson's new adventure - easily his best since 'The Fifth Element' - delivers in spades in two of the most important areas for a sci-fi blockbuster: action and worldbuilding. So it's quite tragic, really, that Dane Dehaan (and the writing of his interactions with Cara "I'm actually physically unable to smile" Delevingne) comes extremely close to ruining everything. A charismatic hero could (and should!) have made this an almost peerless classic in its genre.
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| Mar 27 | damil | 50 25% |
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There are a lot of great and interesting ideas in this movie, and it’s all realised quite beautifully, but man, this film is a mess. It started off quite interestingly, but as soon as we were introduced to our two main characters, it fell apart for me. They’re fine actors, but DeHaan and Delevingne are absolutely miscast. It doesn’t help that their characters are bland and annoying and cliché either. Truly horrible dialogue at points.
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| Mar 26 | mahvad | 85 39% |
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| Mar 24 | hinterland | 54 21% |
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educhristoph | 20 0% |
| Mar 21 |  |
Nathan S | 3 48% |
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If one can stomach a familiar "love conquers all" morale and its telling in borderline abysmal script and performance, the hooks are found in world building and outlandish visual imagination. Its otherness may be only skin deep, but for what it is, and in comparison to most other ultra-digitized hero adventures, I like this. The resemblance to Mass Effect must be noted.
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| Mar 20 | sazek | 40 21% |
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| Mar 20 |  |
JJ1986 | 40 12% |
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Pretty and innovative, but the writing is so bad. Dialogue is almost all rote, the energy dies in the expository scenes and the characters are universally terrible - from the sneering evil villain to Rihanna whose character arc is one of the worst ever in a film (no one cares about what happens to her) to the protagonists who have no personality and whose romance is horribly forced. None of this is helped by DeHaan's incredibly wooden acting.
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| Mar 19 |  |
Mentaculus | 64 41% |
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There is a lot to like here: the old-timey serial reveal of the plot, the production design, the fairly adept world-building. But the primary characters and the script are crushed under the weight of the dumpster fire that is Besson burning through his budget. I could visualize early-90's Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone keeping an integrity about this project, but these leads seem horribly misguided. Even Rihanna comes off like a gender-bending Snarf.
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| Mar 19 |  |
AndersonLuiz | 67 60% |
| Mar 18 | didem. | 50 10% |
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| Mar 17 |  |
Jimmy Suede | 40 11% |
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It should be rated lower than this, honestly, but the visuals and the world-building are a lot of fun. With such a promising backdrop, it's more disappointing that the rest is so awful. The plot is ridiculous, with meaningless side-plots and a cliched heavy-handed PC message. Even still, the movie could have been enjoyable if the two leads weren't insufferably arrogant, snotty teenagers pretending as ranking military agents. Crap, this is all the room I have?
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| Mar 16 | CStewart64 | 9 40% |
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W3E1P1S0V1M1A1R1. Just boring, and not even all that visually stunning.
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| Mar 16 | JudgeX | 65 61% |
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| Mar 15 |  |
overrated | 38 26% |
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The leads are terrible and have no chemistry, to the point that I was surprised when they start making out at the end. Visuals were good but just made me think the whole thing would have worked better as a minimally-plotted extended chase sequence like Redline or the original Aeon Flux cartoon. p.s. Besson is a hack who hasn't made a good film in 20 years
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| Mar 15 |  |
Pxbloncha! | 10 10% |
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crappy
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| Mar 14 |  |
RavynLoony | 20 8% |
| Mar 14 | RottenT | 49 29% |
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| Mar 12 |  |
rklenseth | 70 59% |
| Mar 11 | what0ever | 20 3% |
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IDYmilkshake | 18 19% |
| Mar 09 |  |
Mo- | 55 18% |
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scott.mcc | 60 36% |
| Mar 08 |  |
mattorama12 | 53 22% |
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There is some good stuff, including gorgeous visuals, an interesting world, and a surprisingly good Delevingne. The action sequence that takes places with an extra dimension is also really unique. But the story is completely uninteresting and DeHaan's character was particularly annoying.
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| Mar 08 |  |
Cheese | 30 13% |
| Mar 07 | MenialRetcon | 69 27% |
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Lead characters lack any charisma, which may have been acceptable if movie didn't hinge on their relationship. Clive Owen isn't very engaging. Ethan Hawke and Rhianna have the most life to them but their whole sequence should have been left out (maybe they should have been the main characters instead?). Occasional moments of Fifth Element style oddball characters and scenes isn't enough to redeem this.
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| Mar 06 | tenninjas | 35 2% |
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| Mar 05 | Malcym | 4 16% |
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| Mar 05 |  |
Actionberg | 30 7% |
| Mar 04 |  |
mwgerb | 51 45% |
| Mar 04 | kless | 75 13% |
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| Mar 04 | gecko | 40 3% |
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| Mar 03 |  |
zimbabweli | 50 2% |
| Mar 03 |  |
charlotte22 | 70 56% |
| Feb 26 |  |
Bufo1944 | 10 3% |
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Gorgeous production meets horrible acting and unlikable leads. A disaster.
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| Feb 26 |  |
Unsaintly | 44 32% |
| Feb 25 | cHieFRocKer | 75 82% |
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