Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets Review

Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets is a science fiction action film based on the French comic book series Valerian and Laureline. It's produced by EuropaCorp, Fundamental Films, BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance, Universum Film, Gulf Film, and River Road Entertainment and Belga Films. The film's distributors are EuropaCorp & STX Entertainment. The movie is written and directed by Luc Besson.



The story is it's the 28th century, special operatives Valerian and Laureline are assigned on a mission to Alpha. An ever-expanding metropolis where different species share knowledge and culture. Then a dark force threatens the city. So it's up to Valerian and Laureline to identify it and save not only the city but the future of the universe.

• Negatives

I felt like there was no chemistry between Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne. Their playing both partners and a couple but with their performances you get more of a partner vibe then a couple/partners.

The film does have attempts at humor but a large majority of it doesn't work. There were times when a joke was made but I didn't notice or it was just bad.

Some bits of dialogue either come off as corny or clichéd. I remember one line was I'm soldier I follow the rules. And that's why you don't know what love is. Yeah that wasn't very good.

• Mix

I've got nothing to say so let's move on.

• Positives

I really enjoyed that opening montage where we see how Alpha grew into the metropolis it came to be. Even the song they played add something special to it.


I loved the action in this movie. Especially when it was from Valerian. All those scenes really got me excited for the next.

Cara Delevingne did a pretty good job playing Laureline. Every time she was on screen she great to watch.

When I heard Rihanna was going to be in the movie I thought it was just going to be a pointless celebrity cameo. Thankfully that wasn't the case. She actually had a reason to be in the story and she was very entertaining.

The biggest prasie the film deserves is it has a fantastic city design & unique alien creatures. Each alien has it own look not one of them looked like they were copied and pasted. They all stood out from each other. The city of Alpha is pure eye candy. The visual effects team really brought their A-game to make the city look as gorgeous as it does.

Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets has a visually beautiful city, creative alien designs, a good opening montage, Cara Delevingne was good at playing Laureline, and all the action was exciting, and thank god Rihanna had a reason to be here. The biggest problems are DeHaan and Delevingne didn't have much chemistry, humor that rarely or didn't work, and clichéd dialogue.

My final rating for this movie is Okay

So if you want to see Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets I say it's definitely worth checking out but I wouldn't recommend you rushing into the theater to see it.

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