It's stellar.In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity. The Sony release is excellent, technically delivering a fraction more detail, but Studiocanal's is really the winner, looking more filmic, organic and vibrant. Couple this with some unsurprisingly strong Dolby Vision implementation, and you have an image which pops more vibrantly. It may come down a little to taste on this front, but what really makes the difference is the colour scheme, and more than just in terms of added Dolby Vision, with Studiocanal's version affording a slightly warmer palette overall, enjoying golds tremendously, which changes the look of the piece somewhat. Technically, this leaves detail largely the same, however, implementation of sharpening tools appears to have been done with a fractionally lighter touch here, yielding a slightly softer image (the film was always a little soft) but also a more organic image. Sony's 4K release was pretty hard to fault, and it seems highly likely that this release stems from the same underlying native 4K scan. When they picked up Leon last year, they managed to best the excellent preceding Sony release, so it's not wholly surprising that the same is the case with The Fifth Element.
Studiocanal has a basically faultless track record with regards to these restorations, surprising us with equal measures of classics and cult classics, and giving them all lavish, Dolby Vision-enhanced, treatment. 2020 had a quieter start with just the 4K set of Elephant Man earlier this year, however the recent Flash Gordon 4K set was phenomenal, and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was quite a nice surprise earlier in August. Studiocanal's 2019 roster of native 4K restorations boasted The Deer Hunter 4K, Apocalypse Now 4K, Don't Look Now 4K, Angel Heart 4K, and even the Rambo Trilogy 4K, Cliffhanger 4K, Lock Up 4K and Red Heat 4K, with the year capped off by Leon 4K.
Studiocanal deliver another outstanding 4K presentation Indeed, few sci-fi action films manage to mix so many colourful - and outright slapstick - moments in a film that you can still get involved in, but The Fifth Element somehow nails it. He'd pull off much the same in Valerian, in terms of design, but unfortunately none of the other elements of that bloated mess would live up to expectations. Besson nails the visuals too, crafting a playful vision of the future, replete with distinctive weapons and aliens that feel like they've been ripped right out of a comic book. And even though she was distractingly scantily-clad, Jovovich transcends Besson's particular vision and blends innocence, hope, passion and fury into her gorgeous punk role. A wonderful - and unique - blend of sci-fi spectacle, comic-book action-adventure, colourful performances and finely-placed humourĭespite golden era Bruce Willis's iconic John McClane style persona perfectly integrating into the outlandish universe, and Gary Oldman going full Oldman in his over-the-top villainous role, the movie really belongs to Milla Jovovich's child-like, flame-haired kick-ass heroine Leeloo.
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