Twenty years after The Fifth Element, director Luc Besson returns to sci-fi cinema with the vibrant, imaginative, but wildly uneven Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Based on the classic French comic book series Valerian and Laureline, the film follows a pair of space-time security agents tasked with protecting an invaluable resource generator while also uncovering a vast military conspiracy within their ranks. That's the simplest synopsis for this unwieldy story, penned by Besson, that is often an incoherent mess populated with underserved characters.
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Based on the classic French comic book series Valerian and Laureline, the film follows a pair of space-time security agents tasked with protecting an invaluable resource generator while also uncovering a vast military conspiracy within their ranks. That's the simplest synopsis for this unwieldy story, penned by Besson, that is often an incoherent mess populated with underserved characters.
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