Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets - E... (2025)

This is the film's crown jewel. Valerian must retrieve a converter from a creature in a parallel dimension. To do so, he dons a special suit that allows him to exist in "our" dimension while his hand reaches into the other. The editing is frantic, the colors are neon-drenched, and the choreography (mixing live-action with motion-capture) is flawless.

The brilliance of the "E" sequence is also its curse. It sets an emotional and conceptual bar that the actual plot—a generic rescue mission involving stolen converters and a rogue commander—cannot reach. The opening promises a documentary of a living ecosystem; the film delivers a buddy-cop actioner. Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets - E...