Luc Besson and Caleb Landry Jones teamed up for a dumb Dracula

Besson is actually in his not-that-impressionable mid-60s, but an adolescent impulse has run through much of his work over the years, including (and maybe especially) in his best-loved movies, like The Professional, Lucy, and The Fifth Element. In the latter, a seemingly average guy in a futuristic city saves the world (universe?) alongside a waifish-yet-badass Leeloo (Milla Jovovich), who remains one of cinema’s great discomfiting fantasy objects. Rather than downplaying that part of his fantasy, Besson reaches further: Leeloo turns out to be the actual physical embodiment of love.