When they arrive at the temple, Cornelius holds up a stone with lines going across the bottom of it. Korben takes it, but in the next shot, he is holding a stone with lines running up it.
Cornelius describes two different stones as representing fire.
In the Egyptian temple, while speaking to the priest, the professor has his cup in his right hand, then a brush, then the cup again, all while speaking the same sentence.
Zorg walks into the Diva's room to deactivate his bomb, the counter starts at 15 seconds and counts to 14 as he sets down his weapon. When Zorg approaches with the deactivation card, the computer says there are still 15 seconds left.
Zorg catches the case which he thinks contains the four stones, and is seen putting it down on the floor next to the door so he can pursue Leeloo. In the next shot, the case has vanished.
The technical officer reports that the battleship's probe is reading a million degrees and minus 5,000 degrees. But there is no temperature scale that goes that low, so there would be no sensor or display built to show such an impossible temperature.
General Munro reads off a list of reasons why Korben should take the mission; the last being that he's the only member of his unit still alive. Finger calls Korben "commander", but that only proves that Finger knew Korben's status - not that he was a fighting member of the unit. It's more reasonable to guess that Finger was a mechanic or other motor-pool or supply person, than to think the General goofed.
After Leeloo has crash-landed in Korben's taxi cab, she looks up through the glass cab panel and has a strand of red hair across her nose and cheek that could be taken for blood, explaining why it "disappears" later.
At the spaceport on their way to Fhloston, Korben takes David's ID, looks at it and calls him David when David is impersonating Korben. However, when David shows the fake ID's to Vito, he checks it and says "Korben David Dallas". When Korben shows up to the spaceport he takes David's ID looks at and since he knows David is not his middle name he just assumes his name is David.
(At 35:58): A few minutes after Leeloo crashes through the roof of Korben's *flying* taxi, he *flies* away with her while evading police, yet squealing tires can be heard. This is probably a joke.
When Leeloo is standing on the ledge and is being illuminated by the police lights, she raises her hands right before she jumps. Her hands are very dirty, almost completely black. After that, she jumps down, crashes into Korben's cab, and puts her hands against the glass, but her hands are much cleaner after all the things she touched in the car removing some of the stain. Also, her face seems less dirty for the same reason. And when she jumps off the ledge, the police vehicle is hovering out-of-frame in front of her. After the driver says "She dove off!", the car is shown to be far away from the building as it turns to follow her down.
When the Mondoshawans arrive to take the "fifth element" statue in the hidden room, the camera pans up and over the statue to an overhead shot. This statue has apparently been untouched for several hundred years, and would naturally be uniformly dusty. Unfortunately, there is an obvious clean human hand print on the top of the statue, presumably from whomever put the statue in place for the shot.
In the very beginning of the movie, right before Leeloo punches through the glass that is supposed to be "unbreakable", you can see that the glass is already cracked and ready to be broken.
In the flying car chase, the shot of the cockpit 3D map display is reversed. All lettering is backward.
In the final exterior shot of the temple as Mr. Shadow is approaching, the sun is in the background and a shadow falls across the foreground; however there is nothing in between to create the shadow.
In all shots of Leeloo up to the scene with Cornelius and David where she points out the planet to Cornelius on the monitor, there is a visible mark on her forehead (just above her left eyebrow) - not a dirt mark but an actual physical blemish on Milla Jovovich's head. However, just before the scene changes, it magically vanishes, and never reappears in the remainder of the movie.
If the dark sphere appears every 5,000 years and was always successfully defeated, there should be previous versions scattered around the solar system. Spheres 1,200 miles across should be easy to spot.
Dark means not reflecting light, which is what telescopes use to spot objects in the solar system.
Dark means not reflecting light, which is what telescopes use to spot objects in the solar system.
When the various people pretend to be Korben Dallas, the system would have his military career, photo, and DNA referenced in his history. There would be no way for anyone else to take his place on the ship.
The grappa label is from 1929, despite being used in a scene set in 1914.
In the first scene where Zorg is walking, the sound of metal clinking is heard when his right foot hits the ground. In all other scenes, this sound is used for his left foot.
When Leeloo is exiting the shuttle on the cruise ship, the camera dollies forward and there is a crew member on the left of the screen with a radio. The camera quickly adjusts to remove him from the shot.
When Korben gets into the cab and opens the "garage door", you can see a grilled light being held by a crewman's hand.
The crew and/or equipment is reflected in the security window in Korben's cab as he speeds away from the cops and loses the last point on his license.
Zorg's limp switches from his right leg to his left leg and then back again several times throughout the film.
Dallas has one last match with which to save the entire world, yet he holds it flame up, rather than flame down to ensure the wood lights.
He didn't want to burn his fingers again, as he did with the last match he struck.
He didn't want to burn his fingers again, as he did with the last match he struck.
When Ruby is lying on the floor above Dallas, he has a cut on both his shoulders. When he is having the splinter removed, they are gone. They are back when he is at the door of the suite but gone again when Ruby ends his show on the spaceship.
When Leeloo is injured in the cab, she tells Korben that she needs a priest, Vito Cornelius. When Leeloo is studying history, Father Cornelius says she has been asleep for 5,000 years. So how did she know his name to give to Korben Dallas? Unless all the priests in that order are called Vito Cornelius... but Vito's apprentice is named David.
When Leeloo is on the ledge of the building when she is escaping after being revived and the police are scanning her, when the picture of her is captured - the screen next to her picture says "commencin initial...."