Show Five Winning inI I in Elements By Jason Douglas A E You may remember there was a time when the four basic elements were thought to be earth air wind and fire With the release of the new movie The Fifth Element you may think that there is some new and mysterious fifth element added to the previous quartet But once you see the movie you will realize this movie sets out to redefine its own elements Take the movies Star Wars IVars Star Trek and Stargaze Add to that several several several sever sever- al messages on human nature and a whole lot of action and you have the five elements of this movie The story line of the movie is based on an ancient cycle of good versus evil which is revealed in the first minutes of the movie Every years the ultimate evil comes to destroy all life And only when the sacred stones of the four elements earth air wind and fire are combined with the fifth element element element ele ele- ele- ele ment the supreme perfect being is the weapon of divine light able to defeat the evil Of course if the four stone fall into the wrong hands evil could use the power of the four stones to destroy all life This we all learn from an eccentric eccentric eccentric scientist who is studying hieroglyphs hieroglyphs hieroglyphs hiero hiero- glyphs in the desert About the time that he is discovering this secret vital to the salvation of all life the earth a visit from the A huge mechanical race who have come to remove the four sacred stones because they are areno areno areno no longer safe on earth As are departing departing departing depart depart- ing with the they leave a message with a priest to keep the faith alive and to prepare for their return in years when they shall being all five elements back to defeat the evil It is in these scenes that Luke Perry has his brief appearance in the film as a bored young man studying with the scientist After the depart we are taken years into the future to where the ultimate evil has just appeared in the form of a plan plan- sized et-sized fire ball that is increasing its size at an alarming rate As the enter the area of earth to bring back the five elements elements elements ele ele- ments their ship is shot down by a of the five elements back to earth to fight the ultimate evil One very good point in this film was the way in which the evil powers powers powers pow pow- ers functioned There is the 1 race of savage 7 i i beings known r the ultimate evil in as the S I its Man gal 0 r s. s Time G is iS rot not J J y firey form These brutal W h hie i c h creatures seem important only only- Y rem remains e m a i ins n s sto to be a cross f x mostly faceless face face- lif life less and between a large lizard f. f v voiceless 0 ice 1 e s s sand and some sort sortA A from Th The and the evil of hairless F Fifth Element t Gary dog i O Old 1 d m man a n d But no mat- mat u X 1 who works L L f t- t r rt 4 of ier ter how now lUcy iney they look the future of the world looks grim Until earth scientists are able to salvage a few cells from the wreckage They put the cells through their special process and we wesee wesee wesee see some stunning effects in which layer by layer a humanoid person is reconstructed within a matter of sec sec- As the doctors spout off about how perfect this newly reconstructed reconstruct reconstruct- ed being is who turns out to be the ultimate being and to surprise surprise surprise sur sur- prise a female she escapes and lands in lap of Korben Dallas Bruce Willis Dallas is retired military person- person el ei who now drives a cab For some reason when he stumbles upon this woman who doesn't speak English he takes pity on her and helps her escape from the police and government government government govern govern- ment who are chasing her Of course Dallas get drawn further further further fur fur- ther and further into the salvation of the world and ends up running across the universe with the perfect being whose long name is quite long and of Latin but is shortened to Leeloo for practical reasons Leeloo is played by Milla Mill a and played very well Especially those scenes in which she is babbling in another language She makes it sound quite believable Bruce Willis also shines in both the acting and action department as ashe ashe ashe he shoots down hordes of and blows up anything else that gets getsin in his way as he struggles to get all opposite Ul Dallas trying to get the five for himself At certain points all of the evils do work together in ways But mostly they run around ly trying to further their own agendas agendas agendas agen agen- das and fill up the plot of the movie The job of coordination these evils was done well by the ers And splitting the evils into separate separate separate sep sep- arate factions with ideals make the film more than one huge overly organized evil that can oppose the entire universe by itself In the end the fate of the world comes down to a small group of people in the last few seconds before the sized planet-sized fire ball reaches earh earn This group of course includes Leeloo and Dallas but also some other unlikely characters And in the moments of truth the strongest messages messages messages mes mes- sages about human nature are made The film did bring up good questions questions questions ques ques- looking into the past of human actions and also into the areas of love Dont Don't go this movie just to see a million and one gadgets used all allover allover allover over the place The futurist technology technology technology ogy is incorporated in inthe inthe inthe the story but the basics of life are given strong emphasis Other good performances in this exceptional action film were put in by Ian Holm and Chris Tucker So Sodo Sodo Sodo do go to this film expecting to see good acting lots of action and a love story that anyone could see coming a mile away |