The Fifth Element (1997)'s activity

Rewatching it for the first time in a while, I want to break The Fifth Element into its 4 strong elements and 1 weak:
The first element is of course how strongly it manages the Moebius vibe. Some of it is iconic - the city, the diva - but I'd forgotten how Moebiussy the police officers were. Moebius and tall hats, eh?
The second element is the music. I of course remembered the diva's solo - who doesn't? - but to do space opera sci-fi with Middle Eastern sounds gives The Fifth Element a feeling like no other. It of course doesn't stop with a single sound. It's a big universe.
The third element is the weak element, and that's having to conform to Bruce Willis' action presence. The least interesting in the movie, to me, are the blazing guns and smart remarks which seem to have been rewritten to reproduce Die Hard almost to a fault. Event he action scenes seem copied from that august actioner. Korben Dallas' tiny apartment still brings me a lot of joy, however.
The fourth element is the controversial element, which is to say Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod. Back in 1997 and for many years afterwards, his hyper-comic shock-to-the-system performance felt detrimental to the film. But we've moved on in terms of how much information we can "take", and now he seems quite modern (in other words, avant-garde in 1997). Not to mention his style, prefiguring any kind of non-binary chic we now easily tap into.
The fifth element is how Milla Jovovich just springs into our imaginations as a fully-formed movie star. Leeloo is beautiful, fearless, touching, and a great action hero (her martial arts are way more interesting than Dallas' gunplay). It's really too bad the action movie tropes force her to bed Dallas in the end.
So overall? It feels like this movie could have been made today. The effects are on par with anything being done in the 2020s, and perhaps a little better because of all the practical/creature effects. There's even a consent scene. The Fifth Element endures!