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The Fifth Element review

Advantages: Good story, wacky costumes, gorgeous visuals
Disadvantages: None

The Fifth Element is a sci-fi fantasy action film written and directed by Luc Besson (who also directed Leon) and stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm and Milla Jovovich. Set 300 years in the future, cab driver and former special forces soldier Korben Dallas (Willis) is going about his day when a woman comes crashing through the roof of his taxi and asks for help. He obliges, and loses the heat that were following her. He soon finds out that ...
...been sent here to save the universe. Every 5000 years, when the planets are in alignment, a great evil appears, and will kill every living thing it comes across. So the fifth element, along with the other four elements (which are stones with lines carved into them) have to travel to a special site in Egypt which focuses their power and turns the fifth element into a very powerful weapon. If the evil gets there before them, light will turn to dark, ...

Walter_Kovacs 31.01.2009 · Read full review
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Charming film

Advantages: Performances, story, music, special effects
Disadvantages: Some bits missed out

...before, I am a massive Harry Potter fan and I've watched them religiously as they've been released. This film was no exception, another charming story to add to the tale of Harry Potter and his adventure through Hogwarts. Story The film opens with a dark snake slithering through the grasses of the graveyard towards an "outhouse". You are then in the caretakers house who spots a flashing light from one of the windows of the outhouse. He ...
...begin to destroy the campsite. Harry (of course) gets separated from the rest of the group as they head back to the portkey and ends up being knocked unconscious by people rushing past him. He wakes up and sees a mysterious man lurking out ( the same man we saw in the outhouse). He casts a spell and creates the "Dark Mark" of Voldemort in the clouds. This is where the confusion starts for Harry and continues throughout the film. I think this film ...

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This should be Lost in Space!

Advantages: Plot twist, special effects, Gary Oldman
Disadvantages: Everything else

...up into space and got lost (funny that, the title kind of gives it away!). So, when they made the decision to remake the series into a film, giving it a futuristic overhaul, I was really excited. The film was released in 1998, and its running time is 130 minutes. The Plot In the year 2058, scientists have realised that in order for the population of Earth to survive, they must relocate to somewhere outside the planet, for it is dying. The Robinson ...
...yet they find themselves literally lost in space when the sinister Smith stows away. Dr John Robinson and family then find themselves searching for a way back home and fighting for their own survival, let alone that of the Earth. Armed with the latest state of the art gadgetry and a hot shot military man, Major Don West, the Robinsons see adventure after adventure as they try to find their way back. The Cast and Performances, and then My Opinion! ...

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Epiphanies are just the start!

Advantages: One of THE best shows on television
Disadvantages: This series is to be short-lived so get into it while you can!

...newly re-imagined phenomenon that is Battlestar Galactica will no longer be in production. Alas, series four will be the final season and how it ends the saga is anyone's guess. But after a stunning first year that broke preconceptions and cynics alike, this second season leaves nothing to the imagination as viewers can't seem to get enough BSG! After the insane ending to the first year - a cliff-hanger that stunned so many people, series two picks ...
...with the arrival of the Battlestar Pegasus, this time helmed by the ruthless Admiral Cain, (played extremely well by former Star Trek regular Michelle Forbes), a mad woman who outranks Adama and threatens the safety of the entire fleet. The DVD box set contains a special, not broadcast, extended version of the episode "Pegasus" that is essential viewing for all the extra wonderful elements left out of the original broadcast. The only real let-down ...

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The fifth elephant.

Advantages: fast, and funny.
Disadvantages: a wee bit dated

...back to try and destroy the world again. It was prophecised that this evil would be defeated by an unknown quantity, called the fifth element, that would unite the four natural elements to create the divine light. A race of aliens, called the mondoshawan, entrusted the knowledge of the fifth element to a human. The evil that had been defeated would come back in 5000 years, and the human race should be prepared. The knowledge was to be passed down ...
...As predicted, the evil arrived. The human race started by attacking it, but the attacks seemed only to make the evil stronger. It grew in size, and ferocity. But they are found by the current holder of 'the knowledge', who tells them that the mondoshawan were coming to use the fifth element to destroy the evil. But they are ambushed by the shape-shifting mangalores. Part of the fifth element was removed from the crash site, and put into a machine ...

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