The film degenerates into a kitschy futuristic feature.: Critic Review for Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets on Moviebuff.com

It's visually stunning, beautifully prescient in its humanist themes, and while its reach doesn't match its grasp in some respects

Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend

“Valerian” has some cool visuals, but there’s more to science fiction than pretty pictures

Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

'Lucy' director Luc Besson returns to the realm of sci-fi, serving up an expansive, expensive adventure whose creativity outweighs its more uneven elements

Peter Debruge, Variety

The film degenerates into a kitschy futuristic feature.

BollywoodLife Source, Bollywood Life

Valerian and The City of A Thousand Planets is as imaginative and spectacular as they come

Neil Soans, The Times of India

Valerian is an extraordinary cinematic experience if you are willing to take the trip

Jimmy O , JoBlo.com

When Rihanna becomes the most nuanced and entertaining performer of the film, saying Valerian is troubled is a minimizing understatement

Jon Espino, The Young Folks

Like many other modern action movies, “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” is a slice of attention-deficit theater

Mark Meszoros, Montgomery News

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is an endearing, eye-popping mess

Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair

Apart from the two leads, the film doesn't do any justice to any of its other actors

Shalini Langer, Indian Express

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets really is that bad, bad enough that you don't know for the longest time that Valerian is one of the lead characters and not a planet or a spaceship

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

Luc Besson devises a terrific opening sequence, then loses the thread as thoroughly as Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne fail to kindle chemistry

Wendy Ide, The Guardian

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a visually stunning, but hollow romp

Jim Vejvoda, IGN

Luc Besson’s ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ gets lost in space

Ed Symkus, Wicked Local Plymouth

The message of “Valerian” is a deeply hopeful and humane one, about the power of love and trust and setting aside procedure and protocol to do the right thing

Katie Walsh, tucson.com

The movie is so wildly entertaining that you can even overlook the clunky dialogue and the anti-climactic finish – although DeHaan’s performance is the one thing that can’t be brushed off

Chris Bumbray, JoBlo.com

Valerian pushes effects envelopes and 4K digital advanced CGI into a new class

Philip David Morton, The Huffington Post

“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” feels as if it were made up on the spot, by someone so delighted by the gaudy genre packaging at his disposal that he lost track of what was supposed to be inside

AO Scott, The New York Times

Luc Besson's 'Valerian' wastes visual splendor on so-so storytelling

Adam Frazier, First Showing

It’s not often that you see a movie that makes such little sense, but manages to keep your attention throughout

Fletcher Powell, KMUW

Valerian portends that Besson might be the man to take another crack at Dune; DeHaan might be a terrific Muad'Dib

Drew Wheeler, flagpole

It spends more time on Valerian and Laureline rather than their mission to save the Alpha

Ahana Bhattacharya, Koimoi

Luc Besson’s space romp Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets is fun if you can stand the dumb

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club

Valerian’s spirited opening detailing the idyllic life of a beach-dwelling alien species and its accidental decimation is a showcase for Besson’s storytelling prowess

Joshua Starnes, ComingSoon.net

Critic Reviews for Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets