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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...

(Source Paramount Pictures) Vin Diesel, Ruby Rose, Deepika Padukone, Nina Dobrev and Donnie Yen ( source ) Note to future audience:  Please don't overthink and just enjoy the movie.  Even if this is an action film that is violent and is somehow trying to emulate James Bond, this movie is meant to make us laugh and smile, OK? Plus, the BiSki exists.  If you are not aware of the technology, shut up! An article stated, rather, asked, that if one knew of the abilities of the gadget and one just stole it, how would the other one know of the features? I think you will get the answer much later on the film.  Whoever asked that question only based it on the trailer.  Just have fun, OK?  💃💃💃 👷👷👷👷👷 I like Vin Diesel(Just like I watch F&F series because of his co-stars---except for The Pacifier---I watched that because of him), but I watched this movie because of Nina Dobrev, Ruby Rose, Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu and Donnie Ye...