Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) by Danger S — 18 Jul 2017

Valerian is fun, stunning and surprisingly authentic. Recommend it.

This review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) was written by Danger S on 18 Jul 2017.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets has generally received mixed reviews.

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Luc Besson just made a visual masterpiece. It's not flawless, but movies are art. Art should be judged byt emotions…

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Loved It!! Truly Recommend it. One of my favourites too good actors too,it was a really well made movie…

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By Lisa Johnson Mandell (104) for AtHomeInHollywood.com (165) on 20 Aug 2018

With such attention to visual detail, I will never understand why Besson chose to skimp on a sloppy, annoyingly cliche script, and cast a couple…

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The plot and script might be among Besson's weakest, but the images he puts on screen more than make up for it with their unique, inventive beauty…

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By Al B (45) on 04 Aug 2018

I loved it, interesting story. Great Characters! wish it was a little longer, would watch it again…

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