He is technically the protagonist, but the audience is meant to relate to Leeloo more so. it deliberately points to the fact that Korbin Dallas is just a gunman "meat popsicle" whose only value to the plot is to shoot things and drop one-liner "badass guy" cliches throughout the movie. The movie starts out extremely campy and has all your tired cliches that we have all seen in millions of movies over the years and it knows it.
I've come to enjoy it that it's fully intended to be a campy light-hearted fun experience that doesn't get nearly enough recognition because it's not constantly tugging at your moralistic center or posing a ton of philosophical dilemmas to the viewer. The fifth element isn't some philosophical art piece, it's not overly complex moralistic drama, it's not even a good action movie with badass stunts and cool villains, and it's much more serious than your average comedy. May be this movie is not for everyone but if you don't think to much you will definitely like it.I was rewatching it for the millionth time earlier today and I gotta say every time I see this movie. Beautiful settings, great visual effects, Gary Oldman, the beautiful Jovovich or the funny moments from Bruce Willis, Chris Tucker and Ian Holm. In every scene we have something to like. How the story develops from here I will not reveal. He wants the stones as well, he is offered a lot of money for them. The attack on the strange creatures early in the movie was planned by him. We have also met Zorg, who is played by Gary Oldman in a great way. The stones are on a vacation resort where we meet DJ Ruby Rhod (Chris Tucker). She needs four stones, the four other elements, to save the world. We learn a little more about Lee Loo here. He saves her from the police, she asks for priest Vito Cornelius (Ian Holm), he brings her there. She jumps of a building and ends up in the flying cab of Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis). Lee Loo escapes from the authorities, and in an astonishing shot we see how a city looks like now. Evil here looks like a great ball of fire.
She is the fifth element, the ultimate weapon against evil. The only thing that survives is reconstructed and turns out to be Lee Loo (Milla Jovovich). The strange creatures return but they are attacked by other strange creatures. They tell the priest they will return in 300 years, when evil arrives. The creatures tell a priest that the stones are no longer save on earth and they take some things. From here on we know this is not going to be a normal or very serious sci-fi action movie. The movie opens in Egypt, 1914, and we meet some strange creatures. I liked every scene, every moment in this movie. Especially the story is not the best thing here, but who cares. There is so much entertainment in this movie it would be almost stupid to write about its flaws. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil But the skilled Korben Dallas has fallen in love with Leeloo and decides to help her to retrieve the stones. Meanwhile, the Evil uses the greedy and cruel Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg and a team of mercenary Mangalores to retrieve the stones and avoid the protection of Leeloo. Leeloo tells him that she must meet Father Vito Cornelius to accomplish her mission.
She escapes from the laboratory and stumbles upon the taxi driver and former elite commando Major Korben Dallas that helps her to escape from the police. However, a team of scientists use the DNA of the remains of the Fifth Element to rebuild the perfect being called Leeloo. A Mondoshawan spacecraft is bringing The Fifth Element back to Earth but it is destroyed by the evil Mangalores. The only hope for mankind is the Fifth Element, who comes to Earth every five thousand years to protect the humans with four stones of the four elements: fire, water, Earth and air. In the twenty-third century, the universe is threatened by evil.