Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) by Spencer H — 23 Nov 2017

Very pretty...terrible acting. Rip off of many sci fi movies...

This review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) was written by Spencer H on 23 Nov 2017.

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

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By Jennifer Heaton (346) for Alternative Lens (346) on 11 Nov 2018

This spiritual sequel to The Fifth Element may be bloated and highly unfocused, but it compensates for it with a relentless sense of imagination…

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By Kyle M (2,387) on 08 Aug 2018

I commend it's efforts, but I just have no idea what was going on…

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One of the few really well done modern non-dystopian science fiction films based on the comics by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières…

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By Hanna N (48) on 10 Jan 2019

A spectacle from the mind of Luc Besson, Valerian and the thousands Planets, is a crazy ride of intense visual effects…

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By Gmd E (53) on 28 Sep 2018

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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By Jack T (264) on 25 Jul 2018

There is just something missing…

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By Colby Bryant (83) for Colbybryant.com (72) on 08 Dec 2018

All in all, I would caution ... (those) just there to see the visuals to think twice ... It felt like a complete waste of time…

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By Richard B (1,390) on 08 Dec 2018

This is one of those movies made for a specific group of people. It has great world building and I enjoyed the characters and concepts…

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By Evan C (181) on 27 Oct 2018

Terrible...just terrible!!! Absolutely no connection between the apparently romantically connected main characters…

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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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