Every opportunity to blow it up only makes it stronger. Like most of its ilk, the story revolves around an evil force about to devour Earth and the rest of life itself as it increases in size and power with each influx of destruction and hate thrown at it. The humor that's infused just makes it better, vaulting it through genres and making it accessible to almost everyone who gives it a try. With its mythology, creatures, action, and special effects, the movie has everything going for it. As far as sci-fi goes, this is a very capable installment. However, The Fifth Element is by no means a slight film without a fan base. He just must have decided to only direct his more serious fare and leave the fun stuff to others. Looking at his work now, with such high-octane humor as the Transporter series, among others, (written by Besson, but not directed), it doesn't seem that out of place. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilĪfter making heavy movies like La Femme Nikita and Leon, it is somewhat of a departure for Luc Besson to do this comic, pulp, sci-fi film The Fifth Element. But the skilled Korben Dallas has fallen in love with Leeloo and decides to help her to retrieve the stones. Meanwhile, the Evil uses the greedy and cruel Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg and a team of mercenary Mangalores to retrieve the stones and avoid the protection of Leeloo.

Leeloo tells him that she must meet Father Vito Cornelius to accomplish her mission. She escapes from the laboratory and stumbles upon the taxi driver and former elite commando Major Korben Dallas that helps her to escape from the police. However, a team of scientists use the DNA of the remains of the Fifth Element to rebuild the perfect being called Leeloo. A Mondoshawan spacecraft is bringing The Fifth Element back to Earth but it is destroyed by the evil Mangalores.

The only hope for mankind is the Fifth Element, who comes to Earth every five thousand years to protect the humans with four stones of the four elements: fire, water, Earth and air.

In the twenty-third century, the universe is threatened by evil.

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