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Foreword:    This was originally written on Thursday January 20, 2022. I recently made some edits to my Fifth Element review to include a Luc Besson movie that I didn’t know about until recently and didn’t list as a Luc Besson movie that I hadn’t seen. That movie was Dogman 🐕 (no relation to the recent 2025 animated film Dog Man 🐕 ), it’s an action thriller movie that was released in France 🇫🇷 in 2023, but released in the US 🇺🇸 in 2024. I didn’t even know that movie even existed until I saw Martin’s list of the worst movies of 2024 on the Double Toasted YouTube channel, where it was included as one of the worst movies that Martin had seen last year. You’ll see what I meant in that Fifth Element review about Martin hating Luc Besson when you watch that video because he really hates Luc Besson. He calls him “immature” in the section where he talks about Dogman 🐕 .  I mean, I agree with him, at least when it comes to current day Luc Besson. He’s certainly has that...

  (This is the poster for The Fifth Element .) I honestly never thought that I would review this movie, but after I mentioned it in my Weekend in Taipei review , I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I had to rewatch it and write a review of it. So, indulge me as I take a trip down memory lane and review this sci-fi action comedy classic. Now, this is a childhood movie of mine, I first saw it at a very young age and I instantly fell in love with it. It was one of my favorite movies growing up, and even after all these years, I still enjoy it, it still holds up. It is easily Luc Besson’s best movie by far, at least of the ones that I’ve seen that he’s directed. It’s better than Lucy , it’s better than Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets , and it’s better than Anna . I’ve never seen La Femme Nikita , Léon: The Professional, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc ,  Arthur and the Invisibles , or The Lady ♀︎ , or Dogman  🐕 (which was released in France 🇫🇷 in 2023 b...