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Does Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets hold up to The Fifth Element?

4 min readJul 30, 2017

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Nearly a year ago I first caught wind of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. It was some article in either Film School Rejects or The Ringer talking about exciting upcoming projects. Valerian was billed as the return to hard sci-fi from legendary director Luc Besson. That’s all I needed to know. I was down.

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Justin Cox

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