Chris Tucker, in 1997, played a social media influencer before they ever existed without even realizing it. Genius, ahead of his time.

This movie is two straight hours of batshit insanity, in the best way. It's non-stop, in your face, WTF, and I love every second of it.

One of my favorite movies. Fun fact: Chris Tucker's part was originally written for the singer Prince, but because Prince doesn't act in movies he's not the lead actor in he passed it up, which I honestly think was a good thing because Chris Tucker is hilarious and perfect for this part. Lol

In my opinion, the fifth element is love. That's why it was a human, not a stone. She had a short time to learn love before it was too late, but all she learned was destruction. That's where Korben played the important role in teaching her what love is. It can't be taught, it has to be felt.

Gary Oldman is an incredible actor with amazing range but Chris Tucker totally stole this film. His dedication in portraying Ruby Rod is iconic! Loved hearing you two laughing throughout. 😊👍

In my opinion this movie is nearly flawless. It has everything I want in a movie. Comedy, action, crazy looking aliens, great character development, plot twists, and some really heartfelt moments. 10/10

The 5th element was love. Leeloo was more like a 5th stone. The element needed to activate her was love.

The fashion is so perfect in this movie. Jean Paul Gaultier was the costume designer. I watched it on the theater when I was a kid and has been one of my fav movies of all time ever since. It may be the movie I've watched the most.

What makes the movie for me is that every actor in the cast knew how silly and fun the script was, but despite that they took it completely seriously, and thus makes the audience take it seriously. And as a result a fun but dumb action/Sci Fi movie becomes a classic.

The looks on your faces when Ruby came in was priceless!!!!!

Words don't express how much I love this movie. I love the music. I love the style. I love how the protagonist and antagonist never actually even meet. I love the linked jump cuts with timers. I love Chris Tucker going off the wall. I love President Deebo. I love how it shows a future that is not a Star Trek-esque utopia nor a post-apocalypse or dystopian evilverse. I love the crackhead mugger with a photo of Corben's hallway strapped to his forehead to fool his doorcam. I love the drive through future McDonalds. I love the by-your-window homemade chinese food from a levitating barge. I love Leelu drawing down on Corben for kissing her without permission. I love how you can throw some pills in a super-microwave and get a full chicken dinner in 3 seconds. I love how 10 different Corbens all tried to go to the airport and get on the flight. I love how Gary Oldman just vanishes into every character he plays. I love how they "bug" the presidents office by putting a radio transmitter on a roach. I love Corben's negotiation. I love how future cigarettes are like 5 inches of filter and 1 inch of smoke. I love screaming at Aziz for more light. I love Ruby Rhod describing the Mangalores and the general immediately knowing who they are. It just so gleefully embraces every single thing that makes it nuts, and no other film is anything like it.

There was a line in the movie that said the Mondoshawans never fully trusted humans. So they gave The Diva the stones to get them to the fifth element. For some unknown reason she decided to hide them in her body. The part of The Diva was played by opera singer Maïwenn Le Besco. But it was an opera singer really hit all those notes.

I like this movie because it doesn't care what you think about it. It does what it wants and won't apologize for it. It's great fun. Thanks for the reaction. "Leeloo Dallas. Multi-Pass." is an iconic line.

Luc Besson, who wrote the story, also made up the language that Leeloo was speaking ( the divine language ) Milla learned it and her and Luc would be on set having whole conversations in it and people we're dumbfounded cause they had no idea what was being said. It's great to see people enjoying it after all these years☺️

Fun Fact: Ruby Rhod character was originally written to be played by Prince…I would’ve loved that I love watching movies with you guys

Some of the best spies in major wars were civilians. Restaurant and lounge employees, singers and musicians (like Glenn Miller, it's theorized), sex workers. The Diva is a perfect example. And who doesn't love the psychic synchrony between the performance and the fight? There's a "Who sang it best" video out there of actual humans performing the diva dance song, including Dimash. It's great house-cleaning music, tbh. LOL Thanks for doing this one, @ReelinwithAsiaandBJ !

There's no movie like this. Luc Besson is genious of European and French film industry as producer and director. Valerian and City of Thousand worlds comes close with atmosphere, world building, colors and music but its Luc Besson's too.

It seems so weird, but it’s a classic! The cast makes it work. I feel like the actors were the right combination to make this movie great. Ruby Rod is the ultimate! My whole family loves this movie and it’s just fun. Action, comedy, a little love 😏, and a happy ending without mass casualties, lol.

The diva singing is her real voice singing opera . Incredible voice.

That scream Chris Tucker did under the piano with that trail off at the end. Oh man, I don't think anything has ever made me laugh so hard. I had tears streaming from my eyes from that. I replayed that scene over and over and even to this day it sends me into a laughing fit even though I've seen it probably a dozen times.

"CHICKAN GOOOD!" ____ "MUULTY PASS!" OK, yes...we have the movie and we watch it. We do so because; my wife and I went to the Drive-In, after dinner, on our first date out in 1997 and this was playing.

Guys, this has been one of my favorite movies for decades! I'm so glad to see that you enjoyed it so much. You two are great!

I forgot how great the editing is in this movie. Such a great movie. And... Chris and Mila should've won an award.

My takes: - 'The Fifth Element' that the film is referring to, is... LOVE. I could be wrong about it, but if the fifth element was Leeloo only, then Leeloo wouldn't have had to DO anything once she was re-created. She had to be 'activated/engaged' by someone who loved her. Also: If the Fifth Element was Leeloo, there's no 'larger lesson' to be learned: The other four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water, are of critical importance to all people in our daily lives. If there was a Fifth Element, wouldn't it be something that also has that same status (love), rather than Leeloo The Supreme Being? No one expects people to worship Leeloo... but each person could be expected to seek and provide love, whenever they're able to. - The blue alien's name is Plavalaguna. She has a whole range of superhuman abilities - like her ability to emit deep bass tones and hi falsetto tones at the same time. So... why couldn't one of her other superhuman abilities, be to open her mouth & throat, and to 'eat' the stones for safekeeping? -The Ruby Rhod character was supposed to be modeled after a combo of Michael Jackson & Prince: everything about him is done to wild-ass extremes, to get & hold peoples' attention. ...when he says, "BZZZZZZ!" while waving his hands around, that's his shorthand for 'BUZZ OFF!' ...Chris Tucker deserves an award for his performance. (The one thing I don't know: When Ruby Rhod lets out that extended scream during his and Corbin's escape - is that really Chris Tucker's voice? Or did the filmmakers have to tweak or create that sound? :) ) I also think that Corbin first kissed Leeloo because he has a romantic side/Prince Charming complex: He's looking for the PERFECT woman, and said woman literally drops into his cab. She asks HIM for help, then faints. If he was 'fated' to meet her, and fated to take on the role of Masculine Rescuer, could it be that the thing he was 'supposed to' do... was kiss the Sleeping Princess, to wake her up and 'break the spell'? Yes, he was mistaken, but the combo of the way-out-there circumstances under which they met, AND the fact that God/fate seems to have chosen HIM (a guy looking for the Perfect Woman) to save her, is so jarring that his thinking, "maybe a Magic Kiss is the thing to do here?" is at least understandable.

Bruce had a lot of comedic rolls. His first was the drama / comedy show Moonlighting, then the action comedy film Hudson Hawk.

Was gonna post this on patreon but figured I’d post it here. For those who didn’t figure it out, the fifth element is love. That’s what she’s meant to represent and why she’s the critical puzzle piece for extinguishing evil. That’s why the diva told Corbin she needed his love or she would die, and also explains a couple other critical bits in the movie… In the scene where she’s hiding in the vents and zorg is trying to kill her, then by the time Corban gets there he literally has to pull her out and carry her in his arms. You guys were like “What happened to her?” It wasn’t that any of the bullets hit her. She was just so emotionally broken and distraught by someone wanting her to die that badly. A similar thing happens when she researches “War”. She doesn’t see a world desiring of love. She sees a fallen world content in darkness and destruction. She sees a world content without her in it. That’s why, afterward, she can barely muster the strength to stay awake or keep on living. The fact that she represents love and all its needs therein automatically makes her that sensitive. Only after she can feel the love from Corban is she able to amplify it to destroy the evil. Honestly, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. It’s very rewatchable, not just for the funny parts but because its message is always relevant. Really enjoyed watching this with you guys. Good pick lol

Fifth Element was ahead of its time. Not a big box office success, but its popularity has grown over the years. Chris Tucker is a legend. Friday, Rush Hour and Fifth Element? C'mon! The priest guy in Fifth Element also played the android that tried to kill Ripley with a rolled up newspaper before exploding into milk in Alien and also plays Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings movies. Nice to see him in a comedic role. Love the channel...and I love when either of you say 'looklooklooklooklook'.

Hi Asia and BJ... I'm a 61 yo retired army vet living in Washington state. I love your reactions and comments. I'm recently widowed and my son is in the Navy but you guys keep me feeling young!!

Chris Tucker made this movie. His scream was just too damn funny!!

When I first watched this movie with my wife and kids, the minute Chris Tucker made his 'entrance'....we were hooked! It's now a family staple.

My wife said she loves this movie because the world was saved by love

This movie is all over the place crazy and I love every minute of it! One of my favorites! Thanks for watching! 💗

Milla was great in Resident Evil and Bruce was great in Pulp Fiction but my favorite acting from them is right here, in The 5th Element. Another fun reaction to another fun movie, y'all!

29:50 "Ruby Rhod" = The most Underrated Movie Character of all times 🤣 He supposed to be like "Prince" (RIP), but a really weird one and Chris Tucker nailed it !

25 years! This movie will be playing on cable for another 25. One of the most unique movies ever made.

I love the Euro vibe this movie has. It reminds me of the stories in the illustrated magazine Heavy Metal. Great story, perfect pacing and awesome performances from everyone. Chris Tucker as Ruby was perfect casting. I never knew a man could scream like that! :D

Fun fact, the part of Ruby Rod was written with Prince in line to play the roll so his look was fashioned for him. For what ever reason Prince didn't do the part but Chris Tucker play it with Prince in mind with his own flare. I am so glad Prince didn't do it because Chris Tucker nailed it like no other.

One of my favorite good time movies. It really is it's own precedent of a movie. I'm glad you guys enjoyed it so much. And Chris Tucker was beyond hilarious in this movie 😂 CORBIN DAAALLLASSS!!! 😂 He was insane 😂

An interesting factoid: the Opera song was written in a way that cannot physically be sang by a human. It had to be done with computers. But since this movie, there has been at least on singer that has accomplished the impossible and sang it note for note.

LOVE, the 5th element was love, earth the body water the blood, fire the emotions/passion, wind the spirit, AND LOVE the hope and compassion which she lost after seeing in fast forward the total atrocities she saw humans were capable of, of which he reignited

I love this movie. I love the action in this movie . Chris Tucker Gives a great performance in this movie.

Chris Tucker slays this EVERYTIME. I saw this in the cinemas and when he made his entrance, everyone's jaws dropped

I must have watched this Luc Besson masterpiece over 60 times, probably more since it first came out. i laugh each time- it is SciFI, Romance, Horror and Comedy all in one. Great costumes by Thierry Arbogast, great Physical Effects - even the backgrounds are well done that so they still work 2 decades past release. loved watching this- so i know i will be pulling out my copy and spinning up the drive to watch again this weekend.

This movie was such a breath of fresh air, it was not a sequel or spin off it was an original that stands the test of time. I believe this was one of Chris Tuckers first big budget films , he did great and really held his own up against Bruce Willis. Gary Oldman playing Zorg was brilliant because Gary Oldman is always brilliant , his portrayal of Winston Churchill in " Darkest Hour" would be a great film to check out. great reaction guys!

This is definitely one of my favorite movies from the 90s. It's an absolutely hilarious action movie, and like many said Chris Tucker stole the spotlight in this. 😂😂😂😂 I'm glad you guys enjoyed this classic movie!

The fifth element is "Love"... it is what connects everything together...

The Diva’s song is from “Lucia di Lammermoor”, an Italian opera. The song itself is referred to as “the mad scene” in which the character of Lucia goes insane and is singing to her dead lover.

This was so fun to watch with y'all 😅. No one but Chris Tucker could have played that role 😂😂😂. My kids got me into this movie years ago and we can all still quote lines from it. Love it 💖

I forgot how funny this movie was! Thank y'all we so enjoyed your reactions! My hubby was actually laughing out loud when BJ was laughing so hard he had tears 😅. Thank y'all again! Love and peace ✌️🕊️❤️🤗 from Memphis Tennessee 💕🥰

Ruby Rhod really needs a spin off. Like maybe after Corben takes off with Leeloo the government recruits Ruby assuming he played an integral role in saving the planet and he starts doing covert operations under the guise of a TV personality. Goes on missions, hijinks ensue. It could have a sort of Pink Panther / Inspector Clouseau premise where the inept protagonist manages to save the day through luck and maybe some help through a competent assistant. I'd watch it anyway.

Such a great movie!! I dont know if anyone mentioned it yet but this is one of the rare movies where the protagonist and the villain never interact with each other, they didnt even know the other one existed! Their paths never crossed even tho they were in the same ship. Great reaction! You guys are a lot of fun!

This is absolutely my favorite Bruce Willis movie! Great adventure and comedy combination. And for us North Texans, part of it was filmed in Fort Worth at what used to be Seminary South Mall. My husband was delivering freight to one of the stores during this filming and there was very tight security because Bruce Willis and Chris Tucker were there at the time. Only need to be there people were being allowed that day. Great reaction, y'all!

Actor who played priest also played robot in first Alien movie. Actor with plastic thing in head, Gary Oldman played James Gordon in more than one Batman movie with Christian Bale. Mila Jovovich, the fifth element, was a model but she also did those Resident Evil movies series

RIP 'Tiny' Lister I met him a few years ago at Sports Bar in Costa Mesa CA. A former. USC player used to hang out and watch USC and other college football games and would sometimes have guests with him. One Saturday his guests were Tiny Lister and 70's Oakland Raiders DT Otis Sistrunk. Tiny grew up right up the Freeway in Compton.

Back in the day, there was a famous black female dancer and singer who gathered secrets to help win the war against the nazi. I think this is the kind of military service that the blue lady served. (I guess her body was large enough to smuggle the stones.) You have a great channel, keep up the great work.

The city traffic scenes are pretty incredible to see. You can tell they had some really talented people putting this movie together despite all the silliness in it.

If you like the opera piece, it's from Lucia Del Lammermoor. The piece is named "Il Dulce Suono" translated to "The sweet life" Basically, it's her hallucinating her life with her love and lamenting the fact that she can't be with her true love because she was married off and stabbed her husband to death on the wedding night. I would recommend Pretty Yende's rendition of it. Just look up "Pretty Yende Il Dulce Suono" and it'll bring you right to it.

This one was BEYOND wild. I absolutely love sci-fi, but this one really pushed the boundaries of the ridiculous lol.

Y’all be having me rolling! I feel like I’m watching a movie wit my cousins or something! Keep it coming! Like button smashed!!!

Corbin Dallas's mom on the phone with the president at end is great too

I already loved this movie but you guys made the reaction so hilarious! Great reaction!👏🏽👏🏽

That Chris Tucker scream still has me in tears every time lol

Each stone was activated by the element it represented. Earth, fire, water, air. Leeloo was activated by love.

Chris Tucker was so good in this movie; he did a great job making Ruby Rhod as over the top as you'd expect a futuristic pop media icon to be, while still keeping him just grounded enough to be believable. In a movie with a star-studded cast where the characters were all well written and performed, he still stole the show.

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. Chris Tucker was AMAZING and he made the movie. I have been making the Bzzzzzzz sound at people when I want them to go away for YEARS lol.

I watch this at least 3-4 times a year. One of my favorites of all time.

The 5th element is the Light of Creation, which Lelu embodied. The armadillo aliens created her to be the perfect being and weapon against evil. Some of my favorite quotes from this movie are, "Chicken, good", "I don't want one position, I want all positions," and "Lelu Dallas, multipass... multipass" ...lol

Hi, guys. Leelu was from a species of supreme warriors. They fought evil. They were the same ones we saw in the very beginning of the movie; they were just wearing their space-armor when we first see them land.

I'm so glad you had such fun watching this, especially how much you enjoyed Chris!! When this came out it was soooo original. Still love it to this day. Thanks for the laughs 💖😁

The Blue Avatar Was a Profit/parable and she came there on purpose. She knew she was going to die and the stones were never in the box. And the Fifth Element is Love 👍🏾🕊

I always took it as the 5th Element is Love. Each Element needed its specific Element to work. Water for water, etc. Corbin had to show her love in order for her to work.

The 5th Element is Love. That's why it worked when Corbin confessed his love to her, and only then.

Chris Tucker was so funny in this movie. 😂😂

4 elements = earth, air, fire, water The 5th element = love (the supreme being) Each needed to be “activated” to defeat evil.

You are very close. You're right, she saw the evil in the world and wondered what she was saving. As the countdown was underway, Corbin tried to tell her there were also good things like love. Leelu replied, "But I don't know love." Then Dallas kissed her and she realized what was worth saving.

Chris Tucker in this movie is really why this movie is so classic to me. The soundtrack has “The Ruby Rap” radio broadcast on it and I usually sneak it in to my party playlists to get a laugh! Great reaction as always!

This is one of my favorite movies. Glad y'all reacted to this one. It's just awesome. Luc Besson later made Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which has some of the same sort of feel as this movie, but is entirely different. Highly recommend it, if you get the opportunity.

This is one of my favorite movies from when I was younger so I watched everything I could about the making of it as well as behind the scenes, trivia, and etc. So here are some fun facts about the movie there are tons of them but these are some of my personal favorites. The Divine Language Leeloo speaks through out the movie was actually a full language that was created by the co-writer and the director Luc Besson, it was further refiend by Milla Jovovich. She learned it rather quickly as she already spoke 4 other languages and The Devine Language only had around 400 words. The director and her would talk in it as well as write each other letters in it as practice by the end of filming they could have full conversations in the language. When Kroben first meets Leeloo, and she starts talking in The Devine Language, Luc Besson didn't tell Bruce Willis what Milla Jovovich was going to say to him, so Bruce's reactions are real. Bruce Willis ad-libbed the line " look lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English" The explosion in the Fhloston main hall was the largest indoor explosion ever filmed. The resulting fire almost went out of control and took 25 minutes to put out. And my very favorite fact The flying traffic was made by the visual effects team at Digital Domain, they allowed the artists to create personalized license plates though you can never see them in the movie the slogan printed on all the plates reads " New York, The Fuck You State."

This was the FIRST live action movie I paid attention to that wasn't a cartoon that I absolutely loved. A masterpiece! The audience's reaction to the opera show was genuine, because they had no idea what they were in store for, only that it was a performance.

The first song Diva Plavalaguna sings is an aria from the opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" by Gaetano Donizetti.

Once you see this, you never forget it. Yet another film which is aging very well.

Probably the most "fun" sci-fi ever, imo.

Chris Tucker's last line was *chef's kiss*. Watching this movie as an adult has me appreciating just how **good** Milla Jovovich's performance is in this movie. Watching the 4K resolution where you can finally see all of the microexpressions and emotion in her eyes.

Let us not forget the late Luke Perry at the start of the film. What a cast.

Omg I swear I dunno how y’all are doing this u are literally picking all my favorite movies from my child hood I know I’ve said it a few times on here already but dang y’all are on the right path with these movies

Chris Tucker's character is the best, he is so hilarious. I love this film, great reaction! 🙂

The 5th element is love. It gives the meaning, to everything. Leloo was just a vessel, like the stones that needed water air fire and earth to ignite, she needed love. Without love there is nothing. It is one of the elements that the world is made of.

Some trivia regarding the opera scene. The aria performed by the Diva Plavalaguna (Blue Lagoon in Serbian), Diva Dance, was performed by Albanian opera soprano Inva Mula-Tchakp and is often referred to as the "impossible aria" as the film's composer claims to have written it so that it was technically not humanly possible to hit the high notes so quickly one after another and that for the piece Mula-Tchako had to individually record each note and they were then digitally added together. Chinese opera singer Jane Zhang has though performed the aria and hit all notes, some say perfectly, without electronic or digital assistance. The 1st operatic part of the aria is from the opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" by Gaetano Donizetti (written 1835) called "Il dolce suono", The Sweet Sound, also commonly known as "The Mad Scene" as it depicts Lucia's descent into madness. IL dolce suono then blends into the futuristic techno-opera Diva Dance and combined with the fight scenes and the Diva Plavalaguna dancing is a quite fitting visual and audio representation of "madness".

This is a fantastic and underrated film. I can’t think of a flaw. It has everything. Well, except a moment evoking crying. Even the exposition fits within the narrative. It’s so incredibly entertaining and rewatchable.

i love films where they just take a risk and make something unique instead of the boring ass production line of medoicrity - i saw fifth element as a kid in the theater, and still left a lasting impression,

You recognize the priest, right? He was Ash, the Science Officer aboard the Nostromo who tried to kill Ripley in Alien.

In the end, the fifth element was love… and love conquers everything. We can all learn a lot from this amazing piece of art, that was so well put together. The Fifth Element is an all-time great movie 10/10

RIP for Luke Perry !! .. great actor..

The priest is Bilbo Baggins :)

Did you notice that the guy listening to the roach bug was Tricky, who sang with Massive Attack before his solo career?

Gary Oldman's performance in this movie was superb.

I was waitin' for you'all dying laughing at chris tucker's antics!

Loved your reactions! Chris Tucker was hilarious.

The Diva's music transitioned from a classic operatic piece to a techno-inspired vocal display that was literally written to not be singable by a person. My understanding of the technique is that the notes were sampled and played on a synthesizer. However, performers have taken that piece as a challenge, and there are singers who can either perform it, or come insanely close to it. The Fifth Element was either Life, or LOVE. The Alien singer is referred to as the Diva, and if you want to revisit that piece on YT, search for 5th Element Diva Dance.

Ruby Rod was so ahead of his time, granted it’s supposed to be futuristic but whoever wrote this character had a wild imagination in 1997.