Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Review

Finished watching Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, directed by Luc Besson, and starring Elizabeth Debicki, Sasha Luss, Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne and Clive Owen. The film opens to the history of the International Space Staton as it becomes the intergalactic city Alpha and gets set into space as it's has gotten to a dangerous size to stay within the Earth's gravity. The film then transitions to the beach like planet, Mül as the inhabitants come under attack by fallen space debris as the leader the the planet Emperor Haban Limai (Elizabeth Debicki) as he sees not only the destruction of his planet and daughter (Sasha Luss) who sends a shockwave through space that reaches intergalactic agent Major Valerian (Dane DeHaan) who is about to land on a nearby planet with his partner Sargent Laureline (Cara Delevingne) as they plan to retrieve a small alien creature from the same planet earlier in the film. When the two returned to Alpha their boss, Commander Filitt (Clive Owen) who give the two their new mission to be his bodyguards for a meeting with other major figures of the multiple spices on Alphra. However the meeting gets is attack by the inhabitants of planet for the beginning of the film as they kidnapped Filitt which leads to Valerian chasing after the aliens only to get lost within the the dead zone of Alpha, causing Laureline to go and rescue Valerian and Filitt. Overall this was a decent film as it is a visual stunning film with the alien designs and locations, along with the action scenes being very edge of the seat. There is some great character insights and even development for the whole cast however even though there is a nice amount of character work for the main cast, Valerian and Laureline don't get much development as they become romantically involved the two characters don't seem to change the way they interact with the tone or emotion of their dialogue. 6.5/10.