Combine Luc Besson's eyepopping visuals with a comic-book classic from the 1960s and what you should get is something vibrant and fun. That would be the delightful theory. However the combo of some awkward over-fondness for some elements of the source material (in particular the bonkers "get us into as many different situations as we can draw" plot and the rather 60s French approach to sexuality), and some crucial miscasting (so our two veteran space agents are played by actors who appear barely out of their teens), we end up with an unfortunate mish-mash.
There are occasional highlights (surprisingly, given her previous cinematic record is in the highly average "Battleship", Rhianna gets a showcase section that truly is outstanding), but this is mostly a bit of a mess, with characters who just don't inspire any interest, therefore making it difficult to care where they are or what they're doing. There's almost a feeling that we've been dropped into the second or third movie of a series - all the groundwork that should get us invested is missing, and instead we're just looking at pretty pictures. As it is, Dane DeHaan's script selection for mainstream movies has tot to be considered distinctly lacking - with this, Fantastic 4 and The Amazing Spiderman 2 on his resume, some time in indies repairing his reputation is definitely recommended.
Throw in a badly projected 3D conversion (due to the shading of 3D glasses, 3D needs to be projected brighter, and this wasn't), and this felt distinctly underwhelming.
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