Customer Reviews

The Fifth Element

5 star:		(64)
4 star:		(33)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

For all of those who suffered the hardships of looking for that song, I finally discovered that it's called "Alaach Taadi", Arabic meaning: "Why run away?", which fits the taxi chase scene perfectly. This song belongs to a world-famous Rai artist known as Khaled. It's part of his "N'ssi N'ssi" album (Arabic meaning: Forget! Forget!). I thought that this song (like most of you) would be included in this Serra's album. Khaled's famous 5th Element Taxi Chase Scene is available at Amazaon.com.
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When I looked this up I was very surprised that it got high ratings from everyone else. I expected to be like the only one that liked this CD! For starters, I'm not the kind of person you'd expect to buy this CD. I'm fourteen, and I like alternative and rock. However, I have a soft spot for orchestral material too (HUGE Mozart fan, haha), and am very fond of movie scores and compositions. Often times I'll be carrying something like the Sleepy Hollow score and other teens will ask me what artists are on the album, and I'll be like,"No. You don't get it." I pretty much decided to get this soundtrack when I found out "The Diva Dance" was on it. It's actually amazing how almost every single piece of music in the movie is in the soundtrack. Besides the uniquely electronic-sounding tracks that give the movie a futuristic appeal, the orchestral score on this soundtrack is absoulutely gorgeous. The main Leeloo theme (that line of notes that is sort of music box-like that is used throughout the movie) adds a very innocent sadness to every scene in the movie it touches, and is gorgeous to listen to on a CD. I also love the lighter acoustic version of "Little Light of Love" that I assume was never used or cut from the movie. This CD also has its humorous moments; The Ruby Rap is hilarious, and the bonus track "Agnot! Wot?" is really fun, adding quote clips from the film onto the beats of the earlier used "Korben Dallas" song, anybody who has seen the movie will love it. And if you just want to totally weird out your friends who HAVEN'T seen this movie, you can show them the opera track leading into the "Diva Dance", which adds little techno beats behind the gorgeous voice of Plavalaguna. (But it's not really her, of course). Anyway, if you liked this movie, and noted that the score was pretty nice, you should get this. You'll like it more than you expected.

This is a brilliant, if not experimental soundtrack! I'm not qualified to compare this to Eric Serra's other works but if this is any indication of his talents then I must check out his other compositions. "The Fifth Element" is a futuristic sci-fi action-comedy and the music captures that perfectly. The movie was rather good but I found myself turning the volume up whenever the funky rhythms came on. This album is an excellent marriage of cinematic orchestral and middle eastern with synthy beats. The flow is nicely balanced and, while most of it is funky at best, some are actually quite mellow and lush, as displayed in the surprisingly beautiful "Leeloo" with its subtle flourishment of strings, which blends into the dramatic, easy listening (ie, piano), chilled-out electronic fusioned "Five Millenia Later".
Most shocking of all is the groovy reggae tune "Heat", which SHOULD sound out of place but actually fits in well with this strange, eclectic union of genres. And of course we can't forget about the haunting operatic/Italian techno aria "Lucia Di Lammermoor" which goes hand in hand with "The Diva Dance" and is performed by the angelic soprano and VERY talented Inva Mulla Tchako.

Another song worth mentioning is the End Titles Version of "Little Light Of Love" which thankfully doesn't feature the singing of Sting-wannabe R.X.R.A and replaces him with soaring female voices instead. It's shorter in length but has more energy to it with a middle eastern flare and a rock edge because of the guitars.

This is hardly a masterpiece worthy of awards but it's interesting, fun to listen to, and very different from your average movie score.

If any one is looking for the Police taxi chase song ,you will find it in another album for artist (Cheb Khaled) .the album's name is (Nssi Nssi) and it's the 6th track called (Alech Taadi)

For all of those who suffered the hardships of looking for that song, I finally discovered that it's called "Alech Taadi", Arabic meaning: "Why run away?", which fits the taxi chase scene perfectly. This song belongs to a world-famous Rai artist known as Khaled. It's part of his "N'ssi N'ssi" album (Arabic meaning: Forget! Forget!). I thought that this song (like most of you) would be included in this Serra's album. Khaled's famous 5th Element Taxi Chase Scene is available at Amazaon.com. I rate Khaled's N'ssi N'ssi album at 5, but this Serra's collection at 2.5 for failing to include Khaled's track, Alech Taadi.

Best regards,

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I bought this CD after watching the movie for about the 20th time and realizing that I loved the music! I popped it into my CD player and was promptly disappointed :( But, as I gave it another chance in my computer as I was surfing the web, I remembered the parts of the movie that went along with the tracks and fell in love with the soundtrack again! This really is a great soundtrack, but I am leaving one star off because as stated in a previous review, more tracks, especially the chase scene should've been on it!

**Pandora

I just purchased this soundtrack from 1997's Sci-Fi flick The Fifth Element and it's wowing. Inva Mulla Tchako is one talented lady and her performances of the tear-jerking "Lucia Di Lammermoor" and "The Diva Dance" are fascinatingly beautiful: Amazing! That woman can sing. The high note rocks in the second tune.

I just bought this CD four days ago, and it hasn't left my player yet. The mix of song styles is really eclectic, but it all flows together well. All of the songs are good, but my favorites are "Akta", "Five Millenia Later", "Leeloo", "Mina Hinoo", "Lucia di Lammermoor", and "Diva Dance". Also, "Ruby Rap" and "Aknot! Wot?" are hilarious. I gave it 4 stars rather than 5, though, because many of the songs are way too short, and the song during that plays during the car chase is not included. But it's still a great soundtrack!

This was such an excellent soundtrack to one of my all time favorite movies, Eric Serra is such a musical genius with Luc Besson especially on the music score to Besson's " Leon The Professional".

This has a great music score, great song called " Light of Love", a fantastic disco Opera song, and it's all around a perfect and englightening soundtrack that is a must own for fans of Sci-fi soundtracks and fans of the Fifth Element.

Eric Serra accomplished what no other music producer before has. Despite the negative critisism of the movie, it has to be one of my all time favorites. I originally bought the soundtrack for the "Diva Dance" cut. I now listen to the entire CD whenever I'm driving. Although the tracks are not chronilogically characterized in line with the movie, I can easily remember which track went with which scene. I especially liked both the "Diva Dance" for it's operatic flavor combined with a hip-hop beat. The prelude to "Diva" "Lucia di Lammermoor" is both poetically beautiful and emotional. I can't wait for Mr. Serra's next music production. I hope he received points for his work, because I'm telling you the CD was worth every German DeustchMark I paid for it!