Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
?Valerian? manages to be both cutting-edge and delightfully old-school ? the kind of wild, endlessly creative thrill ride that only the director of ?Lucy? and ?The Fifth Element? could deliver, constructed as an episodic series of missions, featuring a mind-blowing array of environments and stunning computer-generated alien characters.
Indiewire
This is a movie with the density of a dying star, a movie that offers more things to see in every frame than you can find in some entire franchises. It?s a movie that features Herbie Hancock as a deep space defense minister, Rihanna as a shape-shifting alien stripper named Bubble, and Ethan Hawke as a guy named ?Jolly the Pimp,? and it?s a movie so full of stuff that those three characters barely manage to stand out.
Screen Crush
Besson?s space opera is weird and quirky in ways you?d never see in a contemporary American tentpole movie. That sense of weirdness and spirited personality ? along with Besson?s bonkers set pieces ? is what makes Valerian so unique and satisfying to watch.
The Hollywood Reporter
The Razzies don't need to wait until the end of the year to anoint a winner for 2017. The Golden Turkey Awards should be republished with a new cover. Euro-trash is back, while sci-fi will need to lick its wounds for a while. Dane DeHaan, who has starred in two of the most egregiously bloated misfires of the year with A Cure for Wellness and now this, should do a couple of indie films, while Cara Delevingne needs to learn there is more to acting than smirking and eye-rolling.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote