Skip Channel4 main Navigation
Explore Channel4
Food
Homes
Film
4Car
News
See All
The Fifth Element 121 minutes, France (1997), PG
(3.0)
Rating: 3.0 Stars
Our rating:
Average user rating (4.2 / 281 votes)
Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element

Luc Besson's big budget sci-fi extravaganza set in the 24th century. Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm and Chris Tucker star

Director:

The Fifth Element Overview

Read the review

The Fifth Element: Famously The Fifth Element is based on a novel that director Luc Besson wrote when he was 16. It shows. This is an incredibly juvenile film. There's a masturbatory fantasy involving a supermodel landing in the lap of a tough guy hero, nerdy space creatures, invented languages and a complete disregard for logic and reality. Fortunately, the parallels end there...
Read the The Fifth Element full review

Share this page

In our cinema section

Advertisement

Today on Film4 Wed 02 Dec

Sahara 18:40

Sahara
Matthew McConaughey stars as intrepid treasure seeker Dirk Pitt, whose obsession with a long-lost Civil War battleship takes him across west Africa and into a plot involving warlords and water pollution. Action adventure based on the books of Clive Cussler

Latest Films

In Cinemas

On DVD

UK Box Office
Top 10


Channel 4 © 2009. Channel 4 is not responsible for the content of external websites.