Valerian Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs
The year's most insane blockbuster.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets has finally landed in UK cinemas, and it's safe to say that Luc Besson's mega-blockbuster has sharply divided critics so far.
Most of the publicity surrounding the movie has focused on it being the most expensive European film ever made, and the depressing inevitability, of course, that it's been a colossal box office bomb.
As for the quality of the film itself, this is arguably the most bats*** crazy $200 million movie ever made, a demented epic that's custom-built to be divisive, but one that's also admirable in its sheer balls-to-the-wall ambition.
Whether you love it, hate it or fall somewhere in the middle, it's highly likely that Valerian is going to end up a cult classic in the coming years, as it's sure to win its share of passionate defenders who will declare it an unsung, misunderstood masterpiece...