Valerian & the City of a Thousand Planets
Cast : Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Herbie Hancock, Kris Wu, Rutger Hauer Rated: 5/10 Director Luc Besson has dedicated this beautiful spatial odyssey to his father. Perhaps, that’s why it is so other-worldly. But for the Indian viewer, it is somewhat of a bewildering cascade of aliens, issues and landscapes. So there are all these species in the universe that have been staying in cohesion for some centuries in a galactic colony floating the Milky Way with annual get-togethers and understanding guarded by the humans. Imagination runs amok here, be it the picture-perfect beach destination in a struck-off-from-the-registers planet in Mul, or its pearl collecting, environment-friendly, glittery statuesque species inhabiting that planet in giant conch shells, or the slimy monstrosities doing the crack job of contract criminals, or the artificial intelligence gatherers which look like golden goblins – the unimaginable are all here t...