*The Fifth Element* blew me away! MOVIE REACTION FIRST TIME WATCHING! 

Milla Jovovich was actually nominated as worst supporting actress at the Golden Raspberry Awards in 1998 for her role as Leeloo. I think she was absoluely awesome. Whoever nominated her should get a kick in the...

Interesting thing to note about this movie is that the main villain, Zorg , and The main hero, Corbin Dallas, not only never meet, but are totally unaware of each other.

Milla actually had a part in creating her character. She brought in the hairdresser who designed her first very iconic hairdoo and the bandage outfit was her Idea. It is a must see movie.

Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" (1985), also co-starring Ian Holm, is another example of a fantastic dystopian world-building satire with eye-popping production design and a great love story.

The fifth element is such a cool movie. But what really makes me admire this movie is the supreme level of world-building. It's like watching a live-action Anime. The density of new york city as Bruce Willis drives his cab is breathtaking. Many parts of the movie are quite cheesy, especially the president and his team, but so many of the concepts were mind-blowing as well.

Jen, Gary Oldman should get your lifetime MVP award, he is so diverse and is amazing in every role he plays.

This same year Gary Oldman played three characters Zorg in Fifth Element, Korshunov in Air Force One and Dr Smith in Lost in Space and they all showed me how much of a chameleon he is.

To an American sci fi fan, this was such a great introduction to the European tradition of sci fi. Just a great fun film, with some deep scenes mixed in.

I consider this one of the best movies ever made. PS: Luc Besson has been "working" on the story since he was a boy. He invented also the language, Milla had to learn it. They even had conversation in that language.

That smile Leeloo gives in the big bada boom scene, made every young nerd fall in love.

No matter how old this movie is, it is still amazing to watch. You could put it back in theatres and I am sure people would pay to see it on the big screen. Parts of it still give me chills to this day.

I generally like my scifi serious, dark, slow-building, etc (think Arrival, Contact or Interstellar), but The Fifth Element is the exception. There this balance of quirkiness, zaniness, action, endearing characters and serious moments when needed that totally wins me over, and I think this can be entirely attributed to the unique creator of this weird world, Luc Besson. Scifi in Europe, in comic books especially, is really out there and very different than North America scifi, and it really comes alive here. There's nothing else like it, and is absolutely a product of its time (Besson tried again decades later with Valerian, but it felt sterile and empty with all the CGi and whatnot). Also, I absolutely adore the Ruby character, and it only worked because Chris Tucker completely comitted to the supreme eccentricism of that silly character, it comes through fantastically. Kudos tho Chris Tucker for making this character work somehow! 😆

I've watched it dozens of times and can't get over the genius of nearly every scene. I love the part where the transport is taking off, the cutting back and forth between all the different scenes while tying them all together.

Funny thing Jen, Ruby Rhod is partaking in a live podcast when his show is on the air. Luc Besson formulated this idea in the '90s, thinking this is how the future would be 300 years into the future. Little did he know it would only take 30 years for mankind to pull off the technology to make a live podcast not only possible but commonplace. HA So think of Ruby Rhod as a modern version podcaster attending a live event like Coachella.

"The Fifth Element" is really unique, one of my favourite science fiction movies. Luc Besson did some other good stuff. As an insider tip I would recommend a lesser known Besson movie, from the beginning of his career "Subway", with Christopher Lambert in the leading role. Great soundtrack, great humor, good action and some later stars, doing things you wouldn't expect.

Interestingly, Dallas (the protagonist) and Zorg (the antagonist) never meet nor know of each other's existence. I love that.

This movie is still one of my favourites of all time and the Diva / fight scene is epic.

This is one of the craziest yet fun movie ever. Really rewatchable. The bellboy on the ship that helps Corben Dallas is played by Lee Evans. He's a stand up comedian but he was also in There's Something About Mary. If you haven't seen that one I highly recommend.

To my knowledge this is the only sci-fi, comedy, opera film. I think it all works like a well made clock. Note the editing of the fight / opera scene: Oscar worthy 🎉

5,000 years of Wars… the mere thought of learning about it like that… it always makes me tear up a little bit. And I will always love how beautiful the moment she saves humanity is…

Milla did make the language up for Leelo. She was told to just speak nonsense, but she created a language on her own.

Gary Oldman truly is a chameleon. None of my guests ever recognize him in any role.

Always fun rewatching your reactions Jen and seeing your old set up , you had such a fun time nice spot with Bilbo baggins 👌 you love a movie time limit you got a movie time limit . You want an explosion you get an explosion and you want a screen kiss you get a screen kiss 😃 awesome 🙂 cheers for the fun time rewatching Jen 🎉🎉

This is classic Luc Besson but my personal favorite from him is Leon: The Professional. Specifically the European cut which is a little longer. Natalie Portman's first role with Gary Oldman and Jean Reno. Amazing film.

Ruby Ross was disliked by the majority of people at the time the movie came out (I never had a problem myself)... he was a bit ahead of his time, given how vloggers and things like that came out many years latter. Nowdays he's not so disliked lol. And of note, if no ones mentioned it yet... the villian and the hero never actually meet or interact directly with each other.

I love that "Love" is "The Fifth Element".

Luc Besson also directed Léon: The Professional which I highly recommend. It has a great cast also. And, if you enjoyed Chris Tucker, check out Friday. He was even better in that movie. =)

Milla's expression in the freeze frame at the end always kills me.

Was never up in my top film selection but enjoyed watching with you lovely Jen❤️❤️

This movie was supposed to be a trilogy. Luc Besson had three scripts that he condensed into one.

"A skeleton face" - it's called a "skull". ;D Oh man, I love this movie to pieces. In many ways this is a comic book adaptation. There's a REALLY great French comic book artist called Giraud - whom many know under his artist name "Moebius". He did loads of original material, but also created a Silver Surfer album for Marvel that is held in high regards. And he did design work for Tron and Alien. (of course everybody knows H.R.Giger, the Swiss artist who created the Alien creature - Giraud worked on some of the human stuff, like the environmental suits) Amongst his most famous works is the "Incal" comic series, the adventures of a detective named John Difool, in a strange scifi universe. Luc Besson, the director of the Fifth Element is a huge fan of Moebius' work and the whole project feels like a huge homage to him. The whole look and feel and tone really is more than close. Corben Dallas is not a John Difool clone, but an unwilling hero stumbling into an epic adventure as well. Some of the costumes look as if they were copied from the Incal directly - like the police uniforms. And totally Mr. Zorg's transparent plastic headshell. Well, actually Besson went so far in his attempt to capture the style from the comics he outright hired Giraud himself to work with him on Element. :) If you're interested in Giraud/Moebius and wanna find out a little more I can highly recommend "Moebius Redux", a documentary full of interviews with himself and many of the people who worked together with him - like Stan Lee, who praises him as "not 'just' a great comic book artist, but a great artist - period". It gives a good first impression of his work for sure and also talks about Fifth Element. Also someone I know made the music for the documentary. ^^ Here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ht99pxnqGUs.html

Ian Holm was quite a versatile actor, ranging from playing Polonius in "Hamlet" to the android in "Alien."

What a great melange of sci-fi, action, comedy and romance. And you seem to be the ideal ("perfect"?) viewer for it. If/when you watch it again, you'll see how important Ian Holm's performance is as the cement that binds everything together. He's the secret MVP.

I just saw an interview with Milla on RU-vid where she talked all about this film. Turns out the white bandage costume was her idea. They said when she was "born" she would be naked and obviously couldn't just go around naked so she though about what they wear in hospitals and thought of the bandages.

As many have suggested, Leon: the Professional (int'l version) is one of Besson's best. Others of his that I like are The Big Blue, La Femme Nikita, Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, The Family (starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer), Lucy (starring Scarlett Johansson), and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Luc Besson also wrote & directed Leon the Professional. Which also featured Gary Oldman.

The Characters are based on one of the "Haevy Metal" Graphic Novels. There's an Animated Movie called "Heavy Metal" which has Corbin in it (in the First Movie, not the Sequel). Some Big Names provided the Voices, including John Candy and Harold Ramis (RIP to both) DEFINATELY Worth a Reaction!

When I first got a high def tv and Blu-ray player this was one of 4 Blu-rays I purchased. The colors are amazing

I loved Mila in Married...with Children as the French Foreign Exchange student, Yvette! But Kelly got jealous.....

My favourite part of this film is the clever scene transitions that flow so well from speech to visuals and back again!

It seems to me like a live action interpretation of the "Heavy Metal", (R), 1981, Animation, movie's "Harry Canyon" vignette. Great reaction.

The irony is that Zorg was killed by the same thing that he was critiquing the Mangalores in the beginning, honour, also this is one of the few movies, where the antagonist and the protagonist never go face to face, Zorg never meet Dallas in the entire movie, to him he was a nameless employee.

That was so much fun I just love it when you have such a good time Jen 🥳 watched your enter the dragon yesterday and what did we see on the TV screen when leeloo was scrolling only Bruce lee with his nunchucks 😀 that's epic . Funny seeing Chris tucker with a toilet roll forward hair cut 😅 , loved leeloos language and was hoping you would mimic it but that's ok this was fantastic all the same 🎉 cheers for starting my day with a laugh and a smile Jen you're the best 💙

Gary Oldman is easily my favorite actor. The man is incredible. Jim Gordon, Zorg, Dracula, Sirius Black, Mason Verger, Norman Stansfield, Lee Harvey Oswald, Winston Churchill.... the list of his wildly different roles goes on and on.

I saw this when it first came out on the cinema. Had no idea what to expect and was completely blown away by it. Thank you for your commentary and reaction.

Niiice Jen. This is an amazing classic SciFi movie. Luc Besson is a visual design genius ( you should definitely check out "Leon"/"The professional"). And, this movie is great fun. And, Gary Oldman steals every movie he's in.

7:56 This scene, along with the fantastic musical crescendo, was so inspiring to me when I first saw this. It still is, this movie makes me want to write and create sci-fi worlds and one of the main reasons for that is its incredible soundtrack. The Fifth Element has been my favorite movie for a long time.

This is one of my favorite movies. Great reaction I'm glad you liked it👍

The music score for this movie is great too. Totally original and unusual

Happy 25th anniversary of the fifth element, my favorite movie from director Luc Besson.

This is one of the few films where there is very little middle ground in terms of enjoyment. Most people who have watched it either really love it or really hate it. I'm in the "love it" camp. Not only did I see it in theaters when it was released, I have owned it on VHS, DVD, and blu-ray. And I even have the soundtrack on CD.

Such a wonderful & unique film, as well as being eminently rewatchable.

RIP Luke Perry. It's sad that he dies so young, and even more sad that he didn't get to live long enough to see his son (a professional wrestler that uses the name Jungle Boy) go on to be signed by by the 2nd biggest wrestling poromotionin the world, have his TV debut, and eventually win a championship.

My friend and I shout "Aziz light!', to each other whenever we are in the dark.

Another great reaction. My favorite exchange in the movie. Cornelius: "Your a monster Zorg" Zorg: : "I know"

Milla Jovovich was 100% my first 'celebrity crush' because of Fifth Element and Resident Evil.

Milla Jovovich and director Luc Besson came up with that language for leeloo

It’s sooo cool that you did this movie, it’s been a fav of mine for decades!

If you want a movie that showcases Bruce Willis doing one liner, sarcastic style comedy sprinkled with a little action I always thought “Hudson Hawk” was a little underrated. Him and Danny Aiello played off each other brilliantly in it, IMO. 👍🏻

I always introduce this film as an educational documentary on how we got our first and second moon. Lol one of my fave movies.

18:16 "I shoulda dressed up as _this_ guy." Especially with that hair.

GG, Steph the editor, for including the part of the movie I replayed the most when I was 14

It occurs to me (finally) that Zorg must have an explosive charge in every public telephone in the city. How else could he have blown up his henchman with no prior knowledge of which phone he would use?

Cool fun factoid: This movie is celebrating its 25th anniversary and it will only be in the theaters for two days. But on different days in June. When the President said Ian had 20 seconds, Ian was able to do the whole thing in exactly 20 seconds. The voice of Finger was Vin Diesel but he was uncredited. If you had watched Blade Runner the general played Leon. The actor's name is Byron James.

Bilbo as a priest before he was Bilbo, but after he was a traitorous cyborg crew member.

16:09 Fun Fact: When Father Cornelius & Leeloo confront Korben in his apartment, Ian Holm supposedly flubbed his line & called him 'Mr Wallace' (it might've been a mash up of Korben's last name with Bruce's). Bruce Willis quickly corrected him, & they ran with it (rumor was that Besson liked how natural it sounded in that scene, given that Cornelius was very flustered with something he doesn't normally do (threaten another person with a weapon))...

This is one of my all time favorite movies. It’s got a very interesting back story too, in my opinion

One fun part of this is that the "bad guy" and the hero are never actually on screen together... unless you could the missed connection at the elevator. They basically don't even really know each other exist.

I feel like Luc Besson (the film director) was playing Perfect Dark and said to himself "Let's make this into a movie but change the name but keep some of the story." And so the Fifth Element or as I call it "the Perfect Dark movie we technically got" was made.

I love to see You reacting to SciFi movies! 👍😊💜

Milla Jovovich was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. She's most famous for her performance in the _Resident Evil_ franchise. She's fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, English, French and Serbian which left her uniquely qualified for the role of someone fluent in a language that had been made up for this movie.

"Multipass!!"😂

another unusual thing about this movie is there is no swearing. If you get the chance to watch this on a big screen...do it! i saw it on the theatre on release and the New York street scene blew me away. I have a 12 foot screen at home and is still doesn't do that scene the justice it deserves.

The Fifth Element is one of those cult classics. It has an intense following.

So many wonderful stars in this one. I have many Bruce Willis sci-fi movies and apart from the obvious ones, Surrogates is well worth watching. Ian Holm likewise turns up in many of my favorite films but it was probably his role as the defective android in Alien that gave his career a boost. He never gets the lead role but is always great in supporting roles. Brazil is one such movie I highly recommend. Gary Oldman is just wonderful at everything he does. Down here in Oz one of our tv channels once a year plays The Fifth Element on repeat all day.

Luc Beeson directed the Fifth Element and another one of hos films that is similar is Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets with Cara Delevingne and Clive Owen

During your premiere chat, you had a poll for best quote from the movie, and while I did choose "Multi Pass", my other favorite was missing: "Anyone else wanna negotiate?". 😈

Love this movie so much, one of the few movies I have seen more than 10 times:) The movie is quite fun, but also original, and the world building is done so well and the whole production is exceptional. It is hard to find movies where you can be so immersed.

another movie by the same director worth watching is, Leon the Professional, with Natalie Portman and Gary Oldman!

'97 had so many wacky alien movies and I love them all.

I have spent the last week pouring over your videos. I could explain it to myself, but I fell for you after the first one. I’ve laughed and cried with you. BUT - I’ve finally figured it out. You are as wonderful as Helen Hunt - I’m MAD ABOUT YOU. Thank You. I can’t wait for your next upload. Best to you and Yours.

The first part of the opera the Diva sang, was an actual opera. The second pop part however was original to this movie. And was written specifically to be "humanly un-singable." And in that they succeeded. Parts of it needed to be synthesized.

"I love not knowing anything." I think that would be Homer's philosophy on life. Two things came out of this film: It helped put Milla Jovovich and Chris Tucker on the map,

Zorg's assistant is Tricky. He's a DJ singer musician and producer. He was in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the video for Parabola by Tool.

Dear Jen. Luc Besson sci-fi genre = Valerian and the city of a thousand planets.

Chris Tucker as Ruby was genius 👏 👌 🤣

That makes at least two movies where Gary Oldman gets blown up as revenge

I'd normally be miffed at the whole "love saves the day" cliche, but here I will make an exception. Remember watching this in the cinema back in 97 - the audience loved it, was a great night out. Weird European sci-fi on point. It's really stood the test of time in my opinion. Bruce looks great with his platinum blonde hair, and as for Mila, beautiful. Leelo Multipass!

I fell in love with Gary Oldman in My Immortal Beloved. If you haven't seen it you really should. It is an incredible movie about Beethoven.

Milla should have been recognized for this role more she was a model not an actress and she did a very good job portraying innocence. you feel for her character.

The fifth element was the second movie that Gary Oldman worked with director Luc Besson, first was Leon: the professional and I highly recommend you to react to it.

not sure if you've seen it before, but seeing the little sailor guy (based on his outfit) reminded me of another movie he was in: There's Something About Mary. if you haven't seen it, it is a MUST SEE. it is literally one of the funniest movies ever made.

Milla and the director were in cahoots with the artificial language she was using. If I recall correctly, she occasionally called him when she was unclear how to say a thing in the "Devine" language.

Now that you've seen The Fifth Element, I strongly recommend Léon: The Professional (1994) by the same director. Preferably the version with "Léon" in the title. That's the extended European/French cut.

Milla Jovavich (Leelu) was the wife of the director Luc Besson at the time. As this is a French film, they take some shots at American culture, including the McDonalds everywhere.

Wonderful reaction Jen. Bruce Willis is great. I really enjoyed this movie. Like all of your reactions you really draw me into the movie more. Thank you Jen.😁

They originally wanted Prince to play Ruby. That would explain the costume. 😁

Mills Jovovich in Resident Evil awesome movie 🤘

There used to be a guy named Robert Heron who reviewed big screen TVs. He always used this movie for his testing due to all the bright colors and details.

Well, Luc Besson also did "Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets" in 2017 and it's very similar to the 5th element. His best movie is "the big blue" which is definitely one of a kind film.