15 Movies You Won’t Believe Are 20 Years Old

15. The Fifth Element

Luc Besson’s visually vibrant and utterly outlandish sci-fi has been called both the best and worst summer blockbuster of 1997. But love it or hate it, a future set sci-fi that isn’t all dystopian doom and gloom but fun, colourful and poppy is pretty hard to come by.

Not to mention that for a 90s sci-fi action flick it’s surprisingly progressive. Not only do we see its typically masculine hero Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) getting teary-eyed during an admittedly beautiful operatic aria performed by a blue tentacled alien and Chris Tucker as hyper-sexual, androgynous radio talk show host Ruby Rhod, every costume was designed by decadent French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, which goes a long way to explain how the movie is so OTT.

One of its biggest detractors, film critic Todd McCarthy, called it “a largely misfired European attempt to make an American-style sci-fi spectacular”. Surely that’s exactly what makes it so good?