Storywise, we're pretty much in by-numbers sci-fi hokum territory. Oh, and as a bonus it also contains the largest indoor explosion ever filmed (fire crews apparently took 20 minutes to extinguish the resulting blaze at Pinewood). Ever.ĭirector Besson jettisons the now tired Blade Runner vision of a foggy post-apocalyptic future for a bright, primary colour drenched picture of New York at high noon in the year 2259 complete with thousands of flying cars, Chinese junks floating incongruously among the melee and in one astounding shot a vista of New York after the sea level has dropped with Manhattan perched atop a sheer cliff face. Because this is a film that looks unlike any you've seen before. The reason for the covert nature of the filming becomes obvious once The Fifth Element is seen. Shrouded during production in the kind of secrecy more appropriate to biological warfare research, The Fifth Element bursts onto the screen in front of an audience which had not the slightest idea what to expect.
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