The Fifth Element (1997)

Every 5,000 years in conjunction with a planetary alignment, a “Great Evil” appears which attempts to destroy all life in the universe. In 1914, the Mondoshawan (pronounced “Mon-do-SHEE-wan”) arrive at an ancient Egyptian temple and retrieve the only weapon capable of defeating the Great Evil, a collection of four stones representing the classical elements and a Fifth Element, which conjugates the other four into life. After taking the weapons as “war is coming” but promising to return, the Mondoshawans present a key to their human confidant, a priest, and tell him to pass it through future generations.
In 2263, the Great Evil appears and destroys a Federated Army battleship as it heads to Earth. As the Mondoshawans return to Earth, they are ambushed by shape-shifting Mangalores, hired by wealthy industrialist and Great Evil ally Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman). From the remains of the ambush, Earth scientists recover a portion of the Fifth Element and reconstitute it to create a humanoid woman, “Leeloo” (Milla Jovovich), “the perfect being.” Leeloo, terrified of her unfamiliar surroundings, escapes and lands on the flying New York taxicab of Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis), a former major in the Federated Army’s Special Forces.
Dallas delivers Leeloo to current keyholder Priest Vito Cornelius (Ian Holm) and his apprentice, David (Charlie Creed-Miles). Cornelius learns that the four original Elements were entrusted to Diva Plavalaguna, an opera singer. Because the Mangalores failed to obtain the stones, Zorg kills them, but their compatriots decide to obtain the Elements for themselves. General Munro (Brion James), Dallas’ former superior, appears at Dallas’s apartment to have him to travel undercover as the winner of a rigged contest to meet the Diva. The publicity of the contest attracts the Mangalores and Zorg to the space liner as well. Dallas travels to the spaceport and boards the spaceplane with Leeloo as Cornelius instructs David to prepare the temple and sneaks onboard the spaceplane.
On the flight, Dallas meets media personality Ruby Rhod (Chris Tucker), his escort for the trip. The Diva is killed when Mangalores attack the ship, but Dallas retrieves the Elements from the Diva’s body. Zorg arrives, takes a decoy case and leaves a time bomb, which causes the liner’s occupants to evacuate. Zorg departs on his spacecraft, but then discovers that his decoy case is empty, and thus returns to steal the real case. He turns off his bomb so that he can have time to search the spaceliner, with only five seconds to spare; but upon it’s deactivation, a dying Mangalore reveals that he had his own bomb planted with a five second countdown, which blows the entire ship up, killing Zorg and the remaining Mangalores. Dallas, Cornelius, Rhod, and Leeloo escape just in time, using Zorg’s spacecraft.
The four return to the temple on Earth as the Great Evil approaches. The group arrange the stones and figure out how to activate them all, but Dallas finds that Leeloo has become disillusioned and unwilling to perform her role because humans seem compelled to war. Dallas confesses his love for Leeloo and kisses her. Realizing that love is worth saving, Leeloo finds the inspiration to release the “Divine Light”, causing the Great Evil to become dormant as a new moon in Earth’s orbit. The film closes with Dallas and Leeloo making love in the chamber used for her resurrection.

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