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Babylon A.D. (2008)

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Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 100
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 93

A poorly constructed, derivative sci-fi stinker with a weak script and poor action sequences.

0

Average Rating: 2.8/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 13

A poorly constructed, derivative sci-fi stinker with a weak script and poor action sequences.

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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 149,360

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Movie Info

Hong Kong action icon Michelle Yeoh stars alongside American muscle Vin Diesel in this science fiction thriller concerning a nun who is charged with the task of caring for a young girl who may be the carrier of a deadly virus. Based on author Maurice Dantec's Babylon Babies, this tale of genetic manipulation comes to the screen courtesy of director Mathieu Kassovitz. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Jan 6, 2009

$22.5M

20th Century Fox

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All Critics (102) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (94) | DVD (4)

Skip it aggressively.

November 7, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment
At the Movies
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I unfortunately had a seat that faced the screen and I have two hours of my life that I will never get back.

November 7, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment (1)
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With his face like a squashed doughnut, and physique like the tyres of a huge truck, Diesel just doesn't inhabit the same planet as Rampling or even Kassovitz himself.

October 3, 2008 Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | Comment
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
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This is a case of a potentially epic tale being pruned and diced to the point where its underlying ideas are reduced to trite clichés.

September 2, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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An abysmal French thriller in which everyone -- Diesel included -- speaks as if they've learned their lines phonetically.

September 2, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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[A] futuristic mess of biblical proportions.

September 2, 2008 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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To put it bluntly, Babylon A.D. is a cluttered mess. Characters have been under developed, realtionships have no chemistry, and its conclusion feels rushed and leaves too many unresolved questions.

January 5, 2012 Full Review Source: Matt's Movie Reviews | Comment
Matt's Movie Reviews

Violent actioner is dull, dreary, and defective.

September 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

A joyless mess of a movie.

August 1, 2009 Comment
Moviedex

There are moments here that are spectacular, and there are many more that are spectacular failures.

January 29, 2009 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

Kakostimeni apopeira foytoyristikis klotsoperipeteias, me metaiores senariakes akrobasies, tsoyhteres eksarseis melodramatismoy, asygkratites aythairesies metafysikoy kai enohlitikes omoiotites me to Pempto Stoiheio (1997), poy dinoyn neo noima stin euro-

January 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses

The 'digital copy special edition' Blu-ray version provides this dismal futuristic world in crisp 1080p high definition.

January 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

With bland protagonists and power figures unpleasant enough for us to want them out of our sight more than we want them defeated, it doesn't do much to hold our interest.

January 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

Think of it as Sunset Bloodsport with Jean-Claude as Norma Desmond.

November 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Slate | Comment

I call it (sneeringly, natch) the 'New Nihilism,' but, to be fair, it's really just the old, Franco-Prussian existential angst hole ratcheted up and dumbed down for our not so brave new world.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

This occasionally lavish, often clunky venture is consistently watchable if not terribly memorable or distinctive.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Screen International | Comment
Screen International

As if the gruff dialogue isn't bad enough, the action scenes are merely adequate.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Houston Community Newspapers | Comment
Houston Community Newspapers

Strap yourself in for some pure violence and stupidity.

October 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | Comment
Sydney Morning Herald

Whatever happened to Mathieu Kassovitz, the French actor director whose amazing film La Haine made such an impact 13 years ago?

October 10, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia) | Comment
At the Movies (Australia)
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Audience Reviews for Babylon A.D.

Echoes of 'Johnny Mnemonic' went through my brain as I watched this, not that its as bad as that but its abit to close for comfort. I still dont really know what happened haha the plot is very very well hidden and the film is really mixed up. The film doesnt know what it wants to be, there's the action of a sci-fi

September 5, 2008
phubbs1

Super Reviewer

A real mess of a film that doesn't make a lot of sense. So much is left unexplained, so many plot holes....for most of the film you have no idea what it is about and what is going on, after that you only have a small idea of what it's about then it ends, badly with too many questions unanswered. Apparently the studio

August 19, 2008
Deano78

Super Reviewer

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