The Fifth Element
    Columbia/TriStar Home Video
                Color, WideScreen and Pan&Scan, 16x9 enhanced, Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro
       Logic, Includes scene access

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Bruce Willis
Milla Jovovich,
 Ian Holm,
Chris Tucker
and Gary Oldman
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 USA 1997 (127min.)

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 The Fifth Element stars Bruce
    Willis as a New York taxi driver in
    the year 2259 who happens to get
   caught up in an ultimate battle to
 save Earth,

moment of truth,
                          "The Fifth Element" has taken long
                          detours to display Gary Oldman as a
                          foppish, limping munitions dealer named
                          Zorg and Chris Tucker as a foppish,
                          strutting talk-show host named Ruby
                          Rhod --a kind of cross between RuPaul
                          and Prince -- who hijacks the movie for
                          his own manic production number.

                                            The Fifth Element's"
                             notion of fun is to have
                          rocket-ship launches fired up by Rastas
                          with blowtorches (William Gibson did
                          this stuff much more imaginatively in his
                          novels), skimpily dressed stewardesses of
                          the future getting humped in
                          space-terminal hallways and an alien
                          operatic diva singing an aria from "Lucia
                          di Lammermoor" as lavender foam
                          tentacles dangle from her ears and chest.

the four elements? Medieval science said
                          they were earth, air, fire and water. "The
                          Fifth Element" posits one more: Call it
                          love, beauty, the life-force,
                            the Supreme
                                           Being.

This is a must-see movie. It's hilarious, action-packed,
and filled with special effects and a future setting.
But if you go in trying to dissect the plot from a scientific
point-of-view, don't bother.
Even though it is set in the future and
involves advanced alien civilizations (the Mondoshawans visit Earth
back before WWI), it is more of a fantasy story than a sci-fi one, and
I believe that the details to of the five elements were left out to open
the audience to their own interpretations.

[Milla Jovovich]

What this mean
                        is far beyond my comprehension.
But I bet you can't say it three times fast.

Leeloo
seems to be everyone's favorite character in the movie,
with Ruby Rhod following
                        in at close second. Leeloo is played very well as an outsider,
by Milla Jovovich as
                        someone who does not know the language.
She was created from a "survivor" of the
                        Mondoshawan crash . But is that right? Was she the 5th element (the statue, which
                        probably encased her) or a Mondoshawan?

                        Leeloo says she was not built to love, that she was built to protect. But it was the
                        NucleoLabs that RE-built her, from the hand they found in the wreckage. Since the
                        statue would have been necessary to complete the 5 elements, then the statue must have
been holding on to the empty case. Confusing, to say the very least.

But what are you supposed to do if you crash land into someone's taxi ,
and you don't know the language ? Leeloo is very smart , she
learned english very quickly .
                    {in the film,that is of course}