VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS (Theatrical Release USA 2017)

Ben Meyers’ rating: 4.1|5.0 Starsìììì

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, like Avatar, makes it on the captivating, outstanding makeup department's efforts and the background scenery of their environment. It’s the best in the business. The movie tries to say a great deal; however, rather than casting humanoids, it seems casting another type of alien would have effectively propelled the story forward so the story could have reached the full potential that the script’s depth of writing offers. Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne appear to be just repeating the dialogue without feeling the importance of their assigned lines. The white aliens understand their portion of the script and act it with good precision. The story, well written, has potential to be one of the better films on the market when it is remade with a few changes in casting. For now, Planet Mül can enthrall audiences. 

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Storyline

Major Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and his partner Sergeant Laureline (Cara Delevingne) become involved in an effort to restore the planet and civilization of Planet Mül.

Additional Thanks

Thank you to Director Luc Besson for directing effort. Thank you to Executive Producers JC Cheng, Mark Gao, and Gregory Ouanhon for making the film possible. Additional characters/cast include: Commander Arun Filitt (Clive Owen), Bubble (Rihanna), Jolly the Pimp (Ethan Hawke), Defence Minister (Herbie Hancock), Sergeant Neza (Kris Wu), General Okto Bar (Sam Spruell), Bob the Pirate (Alain Chabat), President of the World State Federation (Rutger Hauer), Captain Crowford (Peter Hudson), and Captain Norton (Xavier Giannoli).

Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?

Yes. The makeup for the Planet Mül's inhabitants is inspired bits of heavenly spectacularisms. The script performs as one of the best pulled from the market and given life onscreen.

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Ben Meyers