Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

It's divisive. Only 67% of audiences liked it based on 7,894 votes. Critics gave it 49%.

In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. Wikipedia ↗

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a 2017 French science fiction film directed by Luc Besson, based on the French comic series Valérian and Laureline. Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne star as Major Valerian and Sergeant Laureline, special operatives in the 28th century tasked with maintaining order throughout the human territories. They are assigned to Alpha, an enormous space station that has evolved over centuries into a city housing thousands of alien species, where a mysterious dark force threatens the station's existence.

Luc Besson poured his lifelong passion for the Valérian comics — which he first read as a child and which had influenced The Fifth Element — into the most expensive independent European film ever produced at $177 million. The opening sequence, depicting Alpha's centuries-long growth from the International Space Station into a vast multicultural metropolis, was one of the most visually spectacular openings in science fiction cinema. The interdimensional marketplace sequence, in which Valerian reaches through dimensions to steal an object, was brilliantly inventive.

Despite the visual ambition, the film earned only $225 million worldwide, a significant financial loss attributed partly to the lead actors' perceived lack of chemistry.