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Ian Holm plays an astrophysicist who significantly observes, 'It is evil-evil begets evil.'' What is this object? What rough aliens are slouching toward Earth in its wake? And how to stop it? Man's hopes may lie with Leeloo ( Milla Jovovich), cloned from a single unworldly cell, who comes into existence with flaming red hair already dark at the roots (those cells remember everything). 'All we know is, it just keeps getting bigger,'' one scientist reports. Meanwhile, Earth is threatened by a giant pulsating fiery object that is racing toward the planet at terrific speed. Towers climb to the skies, but living conditions are grungy, and most people live in tiny modular cells where all the comforts of home are within arm's reach. It looks like Flash Gordon crossed with those old Popular Mechanics covers about the flying automobiles of the future. The futuristic metropolis, constructed at enormous cost with big, detailed models and effects, is wondrous to behold. But 'The Fifth Element'' cuts quickly to another extraordinary scene, New York City in the mid-23rd century.

The stones are not safe on Earth anymore.'' Deep portentous opening omens almost invariably degenerate into action sequences. Four crucial stones, representing the four elements, had been kept here until a spaceship, looking something like a hairy aerodynamic pineapple, arrived to take them away, one of its alien beings intoning in an electronically lowered voice, 'Priest, you have served us well.

Inside an ancient tomb, scientists gather at the site of an event that took place (we learn) centuries earlier. The movie begins in 'Egypt, 1914,'' that birthplace not only of civilizations but of countless horror and occult films.

The fifth element cast