I have seen the Fifth Element, and I think that it had steller actors in it, that could hold the ridiculous roles they were put in. Fifth Element to me always seemed a send up of the dystopian sci-fi films that where around in those times, not at all serious, and I enjoy it for that.
But take off your nostalgia goggles for a second, you have an actor who played the worst Green Goblin in the worst Amazing Spider-Man film, also out of Chronicle. And a model, she looks damn pretty, but she is a model, she could be a good actress one day but you saw Suicide Squad, do you think she can give a lead actress role credit yet? Give her more roles, then maybe but either can’t carry a film like Bruce Willis did in Fifth Element.
This film is trying to be serious, not silly, not a send up, serious. And it will come across badly done because of this, because they need the film to be serious, to give the graphic comic fans the justice the company who is financially backing this thinks it needs so they can get their day one money.
That is a bleak outlook but I have yet to see a company who is not doing this besides the uncommon few in this genre.