gracemoonlig My first thought after finishing the movie was, wow that was a dope movie. After thinking about it and rewatching some scenes, my thoughts changed a bit. From the moment I started watching it I could honestly smell the Star Wars influence. But, as everyone else pointed out, the first scenes kind of remind you of Avatar. And the whole subplot? Still Avatar. This obviously isn't a bad thing, I mean these two movies are holy in the eyes of sci-fi writers and fans now, so obviously similarities are inevitable. Also I'm pretty sure I'm missing more sci-fi influences and/or resemblances in the movie. I guess what I'm trying to say to you is that, don't expect anything more than your typical sci-fi movie. Valerian and the city of thousand planets is such a visually astounding movie. The world building is impressive, doesn't make you roll your eyes, it's believable. Alien characters are incredible. You can tell that the artists involved in this crew have made an exceptional job. I really want to give all of them a hug and a pat on the back. Story-wise though... Nothing really surprised me. You could tell what was going on or going to happen with just a little bit of thinking. If you want to shut down your brain and not connect the pieces while watching then I can tell you'll be surprised but if you're like me and like to connect the dots yourself then it won't be a plot twist for you. I feel like the writers showed their hands way too quickly. The villain was so obvious, yes he had morals but he wasn't a character for us to care about. We didn't know anything about him, so we couldn't sympathize with him. I think a good villain is someone we can somehow sympathize with. I'll just tell one more problem I had with this movie then I'll shut up: the fact that it's 2 hours but it could very well be less than that. There are lots of scenes that wouldn't change anything if cut, and that's always a minus for me. Overall, I had a great time watching this movie and I can only find problems if I look at it critically. As an average viewer I was not disappointed. A good choice to watch to have a good time.

eberkerbatur A space film with an incredible story of Valerian is really a very large issue, but it may sound like 3-4 films from this story, but it looks like some player choices seem to be wrong, especially the actor who plays Valerian is a very good player, but this role has been a little childish for a good fighting agent too weak and too small. The movie is another complaint, but it is a bit complicated because it is a little bit complicated. This complexity was a bit simpler. It could be an incredible film from this story. I think the film is still nice but not very beautiful

andthen604 I absolutely LOVE this movie. I've watched it about 5 times already and it's a "different" show each time. The acting is weak in some spots but the Scenes are amazing. The Music is great. I mean David Bowie's Space Oddity as the opening tune set the tone for the Movie. And the Storyline is fast paced and engaging. There's even a love story thrown in. Highly recommend for its Funness.

ICMooVees Wife and I had high expectations especially after seeing the previews played before a few movies we attended. Turned out to be the typical bait that is often used to lure people to a so-so movie by showing just the few cool bits in a quick montage. Fortunately we escaped the loss of paying to see this in the theater box and caught this on Amazon prime, and boy were we glad... The movie's first 20 minutes or so were really cool..they showed a timeline of handshakes in space first between Americans and other earth nations on board early space stations in a spirit of unity and moves forward though a series of progressive handshakes among visiting peaceful aliens. This progressed over many years and evolved into a large space station that becomes a conglomerate of aliens, ships and technology, becoming so big that it needs to be pushed out into interstellar space. Within this very large conglomerate we learn that all of these participating aliens along with the humans pool their knowledge and resources together to peacefully coexist. The aliens and the conglomerate looked really cool and shows some great imagination, and the CGI needed to pull it off looked great as well. So far so good... Next we are taken to a planet to see what looks to be a primitive race (similar to Avatar) of beach and surf loving aliens living an idyllic life until some damaged alien craft comes crashing down upon them ending their paradise... Still kind of cool so far. The scene cuts to the hero Valerian, who awakes from a dream state where it seems that the whole alien beach scene was a dream he had. We are also crudely introduced to his bikini clad partner, and the movie plummets. There's a whole virtual reality scene that plays out as a vehicle to jump start their mission of retrieving a box/cage that contains a "last one of its kind" creature. This is followed by some scenes that flip between VR and not, and then followed by an awkwardly constructed chase scene. There's some mumbo jumbo dialog between Valerian and his partner about love, and then between them and the F Troop-like space military about their mission. Then comes another dunce moment where we are fed an unbearably clunky stretch of the film involving Rihanna as a shapeshifting and bizarrely (not in the good way) wisecracking burlesque performer, who agrees to help Valerian infiltrate a cadre of alien goons who are holding his partner captive. This culminates when they escape down a garbage chute in a way that destroys any semblance to that famous star wars scene, and Rihanna escapes out of this clunker in a too-long death scene uttering some useless last breath dialog about love that Valerian and partner could obviously care less about. Yeeshhh.... Somehow the movie starts to wrap up by trying to connect the dots from Valerians vision of the primitive beach lovers who somehow!?! escaped their doomed planet, learned advanced technology, and managed to make their way onto the space station to recapture the lost/stolen/whatever "last of its kind" native creature. The last scenes contain some mishmosh between the space military, their of-little-use-though-ominous looking robot guards and the beach aliens as Valerian and his squeeze exchange some vapid love vows among the shooting. The military realizes that it was wrong to try to wipe out the beach loving aliens, the beach aliens head off into space perhaps to colonize a new planet, and the two lovebirds live happily ever after...or whatever...