Babylon A.D. (2008)
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 97
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 91
A poorly constructed, derivative sci-fi stinker with a weak script and poor action sequences.
Average Rating: 2.8/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 15
A poorly constructed, derivative sci-fi stinker with a weak script and poor action sequences.
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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
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Cast
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Vin Diesel
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Mélanie Thierry
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Michelle Yeoh
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Lambert Wilson
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Mark Strong
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Jérôme Le Banner
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Charlotte Rampling
High Priestess -
Gérard Depardieu
Gorsky -
Joel Kirby
Dr. Newton -
Souleymane Dicko
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David Belle
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Radek Bruna
Karl -
Jan Unger
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Abraham Belaga
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Gary Cowan
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David Gasman
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Lemmy Constantine
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All Critics (97) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (91) | DVD (4)
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Top CriticI unfortunately had a seat that faced the screen and I have two hours of my life that I will never get back.
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.
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.
An abysmal French thriller in which everyone -- Diesel included -- speaks as if they've learned their lines phonetically.
[A] futuristic mess of biblical proportions.
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.
Violent actioner is dull, dreary, and defective.
A joyless mess of a movie.
There are moments here that are spectacular, and there are many more that are spectacular failures.
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-
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.
This occasionally lavish, often clunky venture is consistently watchable if not terribly memorable or distinctive.
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.
As if the gruff dialogue isn't bad enough, the action scenes are merely adequate.
Strap yourself in for some pure violence and stupidity.
Whatever happened to Mathieu Kassovitz, the French actor director whose amazing film La Haine made such an impact 13 years ago?
With a messy storyline and screenplay to boot, the film feels disjointed and lacking true punch.
If Kassovitz really believed he had a classic in the making, why didn't he take a stand and nix the casting of Diesel while he had the chance?
It's as though the film's final act was accidentally deleted on the digital editing console.
Mathieu Kassovitz is making a determined challenge for the stylish French sci-fi thriller crown of Luc Besson with this highly effective, highly charged action movie, even though he has had to rather mangle the novel on which it is based
It's unclear which is worse -- to so liberally steal from films like Children of Men and Minority Report, or to be so offensively dumb in the process.
Por piores que sejam os problemas presentes nos dois primeiros atos do filme, estes nem se comparam aos pavorosos 20 minutos finais, que parecem ter sido montados de qualquer maneira para concluir a narrativa rapidamente.
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The film doesnt know what it wants to be, there's the action of a sci-fi blockbuster in there and the usual standard martial arts affair but you can see the serious epic style wanting to come through too, shame they got Diesel in it.
The rest of the cast is weak really, Thierry is actually really annoying as the virgin child, I wanted her to get killed, and the rest dont really do anything.
Some nice touches like a 'Blade Runner' style NY city and quite decent if unsure why needed snow chase but thats about it, the cgi on offer was pretty poor too.