Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) by Filmatic — 21 Jul 2017

Honestly, this movie was all over the place. Superb CGI, world building, and Sci-Fi/fantasy ideas. Very poor story, poor dialogue, poor story telling, poor antagonist, and poor characters. The story basically hopped around arcs like a cracked up acid kangaroo without any general direction.

While parts of this 'bouncing' were entertaining and general fun, at times I just wanted to throw up. One rescue arc suddenly turned into 5 *vomits*. The romance aspect of the movie were cliche and amped up to the point of being cringe worthy lovey duvey garbage.

I generally thought the story was going to build up at some point to something 'larger' than life... but ultimately built up into pretty much the most disappointing finale I could have ever imagined for such a movie with such vivid imagination for world building it's almost as if the writers they hired for the main story arc had some kind of autism or something very painful to follow at times.

All in all i'd say it's worth one watch, maybe even two... probably best enjoyed in imax 3D simply due to all of the cool CGI moments. But honestly, I was fairly disappointing by besson. he really needed to pick a better antagonist, story arc, and cut the fat, trim the belly of this rampant over-produced beast of a movie.