Industrial conglomerate owner (Elon) Zorg races to collect four stones demanded of his backer, who is described by one of the keepers of the stones on Earth as “pure evil.” Zorg is under pressure as he has promised delivery without actually possessing the stones. He is also suffering from his haircut and other physical ailments.
An earlier attempt to collect the stones by his not entirely bright stans resulted in the destruction of the ship thought to be transporting the stones. Miraculously, both the box holding the stones and the Supreme Being, LeeLoo (after some reconstruction), survived the attack despite crashing into a planet in a giant fireball. Big bada boom.
Zorg did not feel his contract with the stans was satisfied when they delivered the empty box.
With pressure mounting as Zorg’s backer approached Earth, Zorg is forced to take matters into his own hands and retrieve the stones himself despite having millions of employees. This goes about as well as can be expected as he blows himself up with a Zorg invention along with the luxury cruise spaceship. Luc Besson skilfully tapped into universal themes and stories to be able to anticipate the #twitter implosion by decades.
The Supreme Being, LeeLoo, and her taxi driver, Corbin Dallas, manage to collect the stones from the holder, diva Pava Laguna, who, as a singer booked to sing on the cruise, was the reason everyone was making exertions to get on to the already fully booked cruise spaceship (by various outlandish devices—which were perfectly reasonable as anyone attempting to book a full flight is well aware but if I may digress it shows poor planning skills on the part of the Supreme Being if she was arranging a rendezvous on a full flight without actually holding tickets to the flight a priori). They fly back to Earth and stop Zorg’s backer before it destroys the universe.
Considered, along with Leon, to be one of Luc Besson’s most successful films. Remarkably prophetic in 2022.
Felix qui nihil debet 