The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element French Le Cinquime lment is a 1997 Englishlanguage French science fiction action film directed and cowritten by Luc Besson. It stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman and Milla Jovovich. Mostly set in the 23rd century, the films central plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas Willis, a taxicab driver and former special forces major, after a young woman Jovovich falls into his cab. Dallas joins forces with her to recover four mystical stones essential for the defence of Earth against an impending attack.

In 1914, aliens known as Mondoshawans arrive at an ancient Egyptian temple to collect, for safekeeping, the only weapon capable of defeating a great evil that appears every 5,000 years. The weapon consists of four stones, representing the four classical elements, and a sarcophagus containing a fifth element in the form of a human, which combines the power of the other four elements into a divine light capable of defeating the evil. The Mondoshawans promise their human contact, a priest from a secret order, that they will come back with the element stones in time to stop the great evil when it returns.In 2263, b the great evil appears in deep space in the form of a giant ball of black fire, and destroys an attacking Earth spaceship. The Mondoshawans current contact on Earth, priest Vito Cornelius Ian Holm, informs the President of the Federated Territories Tom Lister Jr. of the history of the great evil and the weapon that can stop it. As the Mondoshawans return to Earth they are ambushed by Mangalores, a race hired by the industrialist JeanBaptiste Emanuel Zorg Gary Oldman, who has been instructed by the great evil to acquire the stones. ........

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