Ask Lemmy

If I had to describe it in terms of individual issues:

• The big problem that needs to be solved is this hackneyed blob of pure evil that appears for no reason other than, it just something that happens every 6000 years, and the way to solve it is to follow an instruction manual.
• The way almost all the male characters interact with Leeloo is pretty icky, even when considering the time it was made.
• I didn't feel the motivations of the characters were always that convincing.
• The acting is generally pretty poor.
• Most of the attempts at humour, which were mostly the usual 90s saucy jokes, fell flat.

I'm a bit wary of critiquing things like this, though, because when I like something, I'm also a lot more forgiving of its flaws, so when I don't like something, it feels like a rationalisation to convey it like this. But it's the best I got without resorting to onomatopoeia.

On the positive side, I did quite like the look of the film and the fact that the protagonist and the antagonist never actually meet or have much awareness of each other tickled me. Also, for some reason I just couldn't hate Ruby.