The third and final European Championship match of the day will be broadcast today from 9 p.m. Anyone looking for original and entertaining entertainment after the Italian team’s opening match against Albania will find it on Netflix. In The Fifth Element, Bruce Willis shows his best side. The legendary 1997 sci-fi film is a punky, snappy and never boring milestone of a film.
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Absolute creative madnesswhich director Luc Besson has poured into this film, can be seen from the story alone. In New York in the year 2263, there are flying taxis, and Korben Dallas (Willis) is driving one of them. Suddenly, the distraught, bandaged Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) falls through the roof of his taxi and causes his life to go completely off the rails.
Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element
As it turns out, the Earth threatened by an ancient evil in the form of a giant fireballwhich only she can stop. Now she needs not only the support of a priest (Ian Holm) but also Dallas’ powerful support, because the unscrupulous industrialist Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) and his crew of orc-like space pirates want her dead.
The Fifth Element is a colorful and unique sci-fi trip
That’s not all. In the extremely entertaining 126 minutes there is a famous opera scene with a blue alien diva (Maïwenn), Chris Tucker as a proto-influencer with a hairstyle that resembles an AirPod made of bleached curls and world-saving aliens in steampunk armor. The list of hair-raising ideas in The Fifth Element is endless.
This is also what makes this great sci-fi masterpiece so appealing. It is stuffed from top to bottom with bizarre sightsSimilar to what he later did in Valerian, Besson creatively designs a new world on the drawing board in which flying cars and space-age luxury yachts exist, but also ancient religious cults and unshaven taxi drivers in shabby shacks.
Everything was done with the greatest possible care and Attention to detail implemented. The huge pile of ideas is not random, but a careful composition: every flashy outfit, every splash of dirt, every button on a rapid-fire weapon is perfectly placed like the stroke of a master painter.
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Bruce Willis in top form garnishes the brilliant arrangement
The very special, breathless and campy mood of the film is mainly carried by the actors, who without exception in absolute top form are: Tucker in screaming high-pressure mode, Jovovich as a supernatural angel and Oldman – that alone is a huge delight – as a choleric, unscrupulous loudmouth of a narcissist.
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Gary Oldman as a crazy and insanely funny villain
Willis sits at the topwho places his role somewhere between Bogart’s trench coat and a John McClane pigeonhole: clever, gruff, tough, but also goofy and disillusioned until someone gives him a gun and a reason to fight.
The Fifth Element is a 90s cult classic and one of the best sci-fi movies of all time. Korben Dallas is one of Willis’ most iconic roles, a pinnacle of his will and talent that fans can return to again and again.
You can stream the sci-fi masterpiece The Fifth Element on Netflix – before, after, and even with a clear conscience during the European Championship games.