The Fifth Element
Director: Luc Besson
Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller
Year: 1997
Country: France, United States of America
Language: Swedish Language, English Language, German Language
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Brion James, Charlie Creed-Miles, Jerome Blake, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Luke Perry, Maïwenn, Kim Chan, John Neville, John Bluthal, Lee Evans, Christopher Fairbank, Mathieu Kassovitz
The Fifth Element is a 1997 French science fiction film directed, co-written, and based on a story by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich. Mostly set during the twenty-third century, the film's central plot involves the survival of humanity, which becomes the duty of Korben Dallas (Willis) - a taxicab driver (and former special forces Major) - when a young woman (Jovovich) falls into his taxicab. Upon learning about her significance, Dallas must join efforts with the girl to recover four mystical stones essential to defending Earth from an impending attack.
In 1914, the extraterrestrials known as Mondoshawans arrive at an ancient Egyptian temple and collect the only weapon capable of defeating the Great Evil which appears every five thousand years. The weapon consists of four stones, representing the four classical elements, and a sarcophagus that contains a Fifth Element in the form of a human, which combines the power of the other four elements into a "Divine Light" that can stop the Great Evil. The Mondoshawans promise to their human contact, a priest, that they will return with the Elements in time to stop the Great Evil, but an accident forces
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