Very disappointed :(

Load of rubbish!!

Good start, but then it gets ruined

good back-story, and good acting

This was painful to watch. Terrible script performed appallingly by truly awful acting. It was like watching the worst school play ever produced. Really the finical backers of this movie would have better spent thier money giving it to a charity.

A space film with an incredible story of Valerian is really a very large issue, but it may sound like 3-4 films from this story, but it looks like some player choices seem to be wrong, especially the actor who plays Valerian is a very good player, but this role has been a little childish for a good fighting agent too weak and too small. The movie is another complaint, but it is a bit complicated because it is a little bit complicated. This complexity was a bit simpler. It could be an incredible film from this story. I think the film is still nice but not very beautiful

This film was so horrendous, that it actually made me go online to write a review, which I have never done. Horrible acting, horrible dialogues/ writing, horribly boring story, seems like a cheap knock off of guardians of the galax and Star Wars. Omfg. The lead actors look like children, they are smug all the time. It is just annoying to watch. Rihanna was the best character in there. The only reason I watched is that the special effects and animation was cool. Other than that. Obnoxius

Wife and I had high expectations especially after seeing the previews played before a few movies we attended. Turned out to be the typical bait that is often used to lure people to a so-so movie by showing just the few cool bits in a quick montage. Fortunately we escaped the loss of paying to see this in the theater box and caught this on Amazon prime, and boy were we glad... The movie's first 20 minutes or so were really cool..they showed a timeline of handshakes in space first between Americans and other earth nations on board early space stations in a spirit of unity and moves forward though a series of progressive handshakes among visiting peaceful aliens. This progressed over many years and evolved into a large space station that becomes a conglomerate of aliens, ships and technology, becoming so big that it needs to be pushed out into interstellar space. Within this very large conglomerate we learn that all of these participating aliens along with the humans pool their knowledge and resources together to peacefully coexist. The aliens and the conglomerate looked really cool and shows some great imagination, and the CGI needed to pull it off looked great as well. So far so good... Next we are taken to a planet to see what looks to be a primitive race (similar to Avatar) of beach and surf loving aliens living an idyllic life until some damaged alien craft comes crashing down upon them ending their paradise... Still kind of cool so far. The scene cuts to the hero Valerian, who awakes from a dream state where it seems that the whole alien beach scene was a dream he had. We are also crudely introduced to his bikini clad partner, and the movie plummets. There's a whole virtual reality scene that plays out as a vehicle to jump start their mission of retrieving a box/cage that contains a "last one of its kind" creature. This is followed by some scenes that flip between VR and not, and then followed by an awkwardly constructed chase scene. There's some mumbo jumbo dialog between Valerian and his partner about love, and then between them and the F Troop-like space military about their mission. Then comes another dunce moment where we are fed an unbearably clunky stretch of the film involving Rihanna as a shapeshifting and bizarrely (not in the good way) wisecracking burlesque performer, who agrees to help Valerian infiltrate a cadre of alien goons who are holding his partner captive. This culminates when they escape down a garbage chute in a way that destroys any semblance to that famous star wars scene, and Rihanna escapes out of this clunker in a too-long death scene uttering some useless last breath dialog about love that Valerian and partner could obviously care less about. Yeeshhh.... Somehow the movie starts to wrap up by trying to connect the dots from Valerians vision of the primitive beach lovers who somehow!?! escaped their doomed planet, learned advanced technology, and managed to make their way onto the space station to recapture the lost/stolen/whatever "last of its kind" native creature. The last scenes contain some mishmosh between the space military, their of-little-use-though-ominous looking robot guards and the beach aliens as Valerian and his squeeze exchange some vapid love vows among the shooting. The military realizes that it was wrong to try to wipe out the beach loving aliens, the beach aliens head off into space perhaps to colonize a new planet, and the two lovebirds live happily ever after...or whatever...