Posted: Aug 08, 2017 10:09 am
a couple of characters as memorable as the universe ranging racoon in Guardians.
I found nothing memorable at all about the characters. They have no personality, no chemistry, no actual character at all. They are virtually cardboard cut-outs.
These reviews are more on a par with what I experienced:-
New York Times - last paragraph -Though it is based on a popular graphic novel series by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières, “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” feels as if it were made up on the spot, by someone so delighted by the gaudy genre packaging at his disposal that he lost track of what was supposed to be inside.
The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy
At no point along the way does the film provide a reason to invest your interest in any of this.
New York Daily News Stephen Whitty
It never stops for a minute, yet it never goes anywhere. And much as it promises to take you to a thousand planets, it can’t find one sign of intelligent life.
Entertainment Weekly Chris Nashawaty
During the film’s intoxicating first 30 minutes, for example, I couldn’t decide whether what I was watching was brilliantly bonkers or total folly. Then, as the story went on, it came into sharper and sharper focus: Valerian is an epic mess.
The Playlist Rodrigo Perez
Even if the movie is based on an existing property, a beloved French graphic novel, as a producer and designer, Besson should be lauded; ‘Valerian’ is out of this world. But next time, he might want to reread the comic for its characters, checking the little word bubbles to see if there’s actually something there.