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Tons of style, beautiful world building, impressive makeup and costumes, fantastic acting.
But, extremely mediocre cliche story. Still a great movie, just don't think about it too hard.
For those who haven't seen it yet: To be clear, it's meant to have a silly story.
It was the specific intention of the director Luc Besson, to create a story that feels like it was a dream, a fantasy of another world, and thus facilitate his narrative goal of allegory.
Whether he succeeded in that or did it in an effective way is a whole other problem, but it was NOT he tried to make the story as serious-toned as a psudo-documentary yet failed miserably.