Babylon A.D.

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Babylon A.D.

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Babylon A.D.

Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Gérard Depardieu, Mark Strong, Mélanie Thierry

Veteran-turned-mercenary Toorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produc...( read more  read more... )e a genetically modified Messiah.

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  • garyX
    November 10, 2009
    garyX
    A mercenary in a distopian near future is employed to deliver a mysterious young woman to New York. Babylon AD plays out as a kind of Children Of Men meets Mad Max clone as Diesel does his usual laconic tough guy routine in the company of the impossibly cute Melanie Thierry and t...( read more)he ever watchably graceful Michelle Yeoh. In fact the slick visuals and entertaining action underpinned by an intriguingly enigmatic premise meant I was struggling to see why this film recieved such a savage pasting by the critics. And then it just...ends. No, ends is not the right word. It stops. No explanantions, no revelations. It just stops. Dead. In such a way that flew through the "Is that it?!" barrier, sailed over "WTF???" territory and lands firmly in "You've got to be f***ing kidding me." land. The fact that anyone involved in this project thought they could get away with releasing what amounts to nothing more than a sci-fi action clip show shows such an astonishing lack of respect for the intelligence of the viewing public it borders on contempt. Pure smoke and mirrors with absolutely NOTHING to back it up.
  • AgentLexi2132
    October 7, 2009
    AgentLexi2132
    ''Oh, you're a disgrace to the profession. You're not a mercenary, you're a fucking terrorist. You need two things to live in this business, your balls and your word. You don't have either! You know the difference between you and me, Karl? I still got both.''

    Veteran-turn...( read more)ed-mercenary Toorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.

    Vin Diesel: Toorop

    Babylon A.D., the story of Toorop, a veteran-turned-mercenary who takes the job of escorting a woman named Aurora from Central Asia to New York, stays fresh and witty in its first hour. What Toorop thinks is an ordinarily dangerous mission soon becomes much more when he discovers that his guest is carrying twin babies, thought to be the next Messiah figures. The movie begins frantically and the first hour is interesting, one can only help but admit there is little chance of a blockbuster after hearing zero publicity. All preconceived notions aside, there are actually quite a few great turns at its opening, including a border-crossing scene equaling intensity with any action film. Needless to say, after the 40 minutes my hopes were exceptional.

    The movie could have got one of two ways, really. Either it stayed true to its first hour is gritty, surprising evil marked by mysterious characters or get lazy and forever be lost to theatrical mediocrity. Unfortunately, it was the latter. What started out great in this production failure ultimately pandered its way to murky depths of boredom.

    The movie ended in the direct opposite way it began. We were met with intrigue and let out with unbelievability. We were ushered in with mystery and exited with apathy. Nothing kept me thinking, nothing kept me caring. The movie ended in a lump of lazy, backward thinking, as if we cared what happened to the babies? The last scene of the film was about as entertaining as watching mould grow on a piece of bread. Standing outside some house, Toorop held the hands of two very different looking children, in an act of true love, and a commitment to raise the children on his own. All this coming from a man whom we'd grown to love by seeing him throw innocent people from a vessel he was trying to board out of self preservation. Apparently Toorop turned nice in a flicker of a moment...who knew?

    If I could be blunter, I would. There were many, many things wrong with this film outside of the fact that it was created on the floor of a cutting room. The fight sequences had to be ambiguously edited in order to show the least amount of production error and lack of footage. The characters, although almost brimming with development possibility, were left to hang like a basketball mid-flight, as if we were watching a trilogy without the courtesy of seeing part one and having no hope for part three. It was nearly torturous. Babylon A.D. isn't worth the bother of a sequel, a prequel, or even the time wasted to make this intrepid affair.
  • allan913
    September 22, 2009
    allan913
    A spectacular and mind-blowing blast of great science fiction and hard-hitting action in this wickedly cool and awsome action-thriller. It's Blade Runner meets Children of men. It's solid, thrilling and cool. A stylish and well-crafted film thats terifficly entertaining from star...( read more)t to finish. An explosive, hard-core and adreniline-pumping edge of your seat thriller with great speacial effects and great action. An exhilerating and pulse-pounding adventure that kicks the pulse and excitement meter to a whole new level. Vin Diesel is teriffic, showing why he is a great action hero and compelling star. Director, Mathieu Kassovitz has crafted a great vision that deserves more credit than it has been given. This review is for the extended version, where as the original cut was too fast-paced and flat-out awful. This is a more exceptable version.
  • mwilliams078
    August 30, 2009
    mwilliams078
    Babylon AD is another action film from Vin Diesel. Vin is a hired transporter for a special person going to America from Russia. This is an alright film.
  • jsd35
    July 26, 2009
    jsd35
    What the ....?

    Did this budget run so seriously overbudget its ending was canned?

    Oh.

    Apparently it did.

    Because the ending just skips ahead from a firefight to suddenly a birthing scene, and then... years later...

    Up until that point I would have said it was a moderately en...( read more)joyable scifi action flick (if something of a Fifth Element clone). Then ... well. ... it all goes horribly wrong.

    Utter nonsense.
  • kmansell1
    December 22, 2009
    kmansell1
    your usual vin diesel flick. save the world, action, extreme sports moments. it's not too bad with some nice set pieces but the ending made no sense. it just suddenly jumped without telling you so you are left with 'what just happened' .
  • Marischa2
    December 18, 2009
    Marischa2
    couldive been alto better, too bad it wasnt.
  • BASiQ
    December 16, 2009
    BASiQ
    12-16-09
    Watched this again, gotta say, it is extremely unique and I quite enjoyed it. About the only movie Diesel actually worked in, though he still felt out of place sometimes. Worth a watch!
  • rusky0
    December 15, 2009
    rusky0
    Well, I really should have read my friends reviews before watching this...aaa...movie, lol. It totally sucked!!
  • PattyCsU
    December 12, 2009
    PattyCsU
    "saving the world one baby at a time ain't it a bitch"
    What the fuck? lol
    Terrible dialogue and story. But its effects and the world this film creates is interesting and memorable.
    But I couldn't tell anyone to see this.
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