** The Fifth Element
*** The Bourne Identity

People love this movie but I still have no real idea why. Gary Oldman being crazy and trying to make some kind of deal with a giant expanding ball of evil is amusing, but the whole movie is so sort of formulaic and cheezy and Chris Tucker is actively annoying (and let’s not even get into the skin-crawling horror that is that blue cheezy eurotrance/opera singer). I think some people believe the movie is intended to be cheezy and campy and that’s why it’s so good, but eff those people. It still alternates between formulaically entertaining and annoying, which isn’t good enough for me

The Bourne Identity was a nice thriller-type thing, held up okay on second viewing.