The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
Rating: ★★
Nov 16, 1999Historical Epic
Luc Besson takes on the Joan of Arc story with then wife Milla Jovovich in the title role but in Besson's hands it becomes a crazed historical action film that unquestioningly accepts Joan's visions as real

Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)
Rating: ★★½
Feb 11, 2007Miniature Magical World
Lightweight Luc Besson directed children's fantasy with a young boy shrunken down to miniature size to engage in a series of CGI animated adventures among a race of fairy-like people. Several sequels followed

Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009)

Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009)
Rating:
May 5, 2011Miniature Magical World
This was the second of Luc Besson's Minimoys films, partly animated children's films set in a world of miniature creatures. Here the charms of the first film seem thinly stretched

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (2010)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (2010)
Rating: ★★★
May 8, 2012Girl Writer's Fantastical Adventures
Luc Besson adapts a French comic-book – sort of a female version of Tintin – with uneven but generally amiable regard. The result is somewhere between an Indiana Jones adventure and the quirkness of an Amelie

Lucy (2014)

Lucy (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 27, 2014Drug Grants Enhanced Intelligence and Superpowers/Action Film
Luc Besson makes a preposterously entertaining work where drug mule Scarlett Johansson develops superhuman mental capabilities - sort of if you imagine Limitless reconceived as an action film

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 18, 2017Space Opera/Comic-Book Adaptation
It was a box-office bomb but this is one of the most breathtaking and completely designed SF work to ever cross the screen. In terms of effects, sets and costuming, Luc Besson gives us a work that is an overwhelming treat for the eyes