Right off the bat, yes, Ruby Rhod is supposed to be annoying, and to that end, Chris Tucker did a fantastic job bringing the intergalactic radio host to life. If, for some reason, The Fifth Element is ever remade, Ruby Rhod would be a podcaster hawking supplements and multi-level marketing schemes. What would be the same, and would ensure that he’s still one of the most annoying sci-fi characters of all time, is that he’d be loud, brash, and painfully unfunny.
Again, that’s all on purpose, but Ruby Rhod still makes us cringe. Chris Tucker’s rapid-fire delivery was perfected a few years later in Rush Hour, but as Rhod, instead of a joke-a-minute, it feels like being pummeled into submission. Allegedly, Prince was director Luc Besson’s first choice to play Ruby Rhod, and we can’t even imagine how that would have looked.
In the end, just because a character is supposed to be annoying doesn’t mean we have to like them.
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