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Just my two cents worth.  This movie should have been entitled LAURELINE AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS.   Cara Delevingne captivated the different sets of audiences and her(Laureline) personality was(is) more likeable than of Dane DeHaan's depiction of Valerian.  He(Dane DeHaan) is not bad to look at, but the way he was described here was as if he was the handsomest creature in Alpha, the city of a thousand planets. Besides, I couldn't brush the image of Harry Osborn off in my head as the Green Goblin(that really looks like a goblin in prosthetics). He did fine, but I could imagine other actors for the role.  Thank goodness he has youthful physiognomy.    If there's another person or different specie that wowed everyone, it's got to be Rihanna. She's very, very graceful and she did a great job depicting Bubble. Clive Owen was not an effective villain here.  I know he has played some anti-hero and villains convincingly, but here...he...

http://www.impawards.com/ There are many things that made me sick to my stomach while watching this film.  Yes, Charles(Owen) loves his daughter Amy(Timlin) very much, but he is not very laudable in his ways. The moral compass is pointing downward and until the end, except for Charles going back to his wife and daughter, there was nothing redeemable about his character.  Well, that's just my opinion . What did I like about this film?  The acting.  I finally understood why Vincent Cassel became Beauty's Beast .  He was so good that I almost hated him.  I wanted to get a baseball bat and hunt the guy, forgetting he was just playing LaRoche and he was not LaRoche himself.   Clive Owen is a very good actor and more often than not, he is immersed in his character. From Giancarlo Esposito , to Addison Timlin , to Melissa George , RZA  to  Xzibit  to Tom Conti et al, everyone executed  their assignments well. N...