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The Fifth Element (1997) is a science fiction action movie, directed by Luc Besson, starring Milla Jovovich, Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Tricky, Indra Ové and Al Matthews. The aesthetics of the movie were designed by Jean Giraud (Moebius) and Jean-Claude Mézières and it has a strong, European comic book-like look and feel.

The movie places the survival of mankind on the shoulders of Korben Dallas (Willis) after "the Fifth Element" (Jovovich) falls into his taxicab. His mission is to find the other four elements, represented by stones, and to gather them all before a black evil planet collides with the Earth. Mangalores, blockheaded warrior aliens, and Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (Oldman), a corporate villain, are bent on thwarting his efforts.

Plot summary

Every five millennia, when three planets are in eclipse, evil is embodied and attempts to turn light to dark, life to death. The weapon against this evil is in a temple in Egypt. To succeed in its goal, the evil has to consume the location of the weapon. The weapon is activated by bringing together the five elements of the universe: the first four are water, fire, earth and air, which are embodied in the form of small triangular-prism stones, and the fifth one is the "Supreme Being", resembling a human except genetically superior, encased in a sarcophagus in the shape of a person with head back and mouth widely open. These five elements together produce the Divine Light, which vanquishes the Ultimate Evil for another five thousand years. This weapon was placed on Earth by the Mondoshawan, an old and mysterious race, and the knowledge of the evil and the weapon is passed down generation to generation by a line of priests who serve the Mondoshawan.

In 1914, the Mondoshawan guardians took the elements away because they were no longer safe on Earth, due to the soon-to-begin World War One. Three hundred years later, when the Ultimate Evil formed again, a Federated Army battleship fires on the Evil; it only gets larger and engulfs the ship. The government allows the Mondoshawan to return and help defeat the Evil. The Mondochiwan attempt to bring the elements back to Earth. However, Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg (Oldman) (referred to as "Zorg"), a powerful weapons manufacturer who was asked to obtain the stones by the Ultimate Evil (who Zorg only knows as "Mister Shadow"), orders the destruction of the travelling Mondoshawan spaceship. All of the Mondoshawan crew die when the crippled ship crashes on a planet, but the Earthlings are able to retrieve from the crash site, a severed hand within a glove, which are regenerated to bring the Supreme Being, a red-haired and amazingly strong, smart and beautiful woman (Jovovich), and the last hope of all life in the universe, back to life. The woman, however, immediately escapes the laboratory cage and dives into former war hero and now cab driver Korben Dallas's taxicab.

Korben, a former major in the elite forces, takes the woman to a priest with the knowledge of the Evil, Vito Cornelius (Holm), and finds out that her name is Leeloo Minai Lekatariba-Laminai-Tchaii Ekbat De Sebat (Leeloo for short). Leeloo tells Cornelius that, as it turned out, the first four elements were not on board the crashed ship. Instead, the Mondochiwan gave them for safekeeping to an alien opera singer, the Diva Plavalaguna (the diva's name is a joking reference to Milla Jovovich's first film, Return to the Blue Lagoon
: plava laguna means "blue lagoon" in Serbo-croatian). Leeloo is meant to contact the Diva in a hotel on the planet Fhloston, where the Diva is performing at a charity ball.

Since the Mangalores, an Orc-like race whom Zorg allied with, did not come back with four elements, Zorg (who had hired them to do the job) is therefore close to giving the Mangalores nothing in return but, at gunpoint, leaves them one crate of ZF1 weapons for their effort. However, a Mangalore, out of curiousity, triggers a bomb built into his ZF1, leaving the Mangalores out for revenge.

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