There are moments here that are spectacular, and there are many more that are spectacular failures.
CommentJan 29, 2009
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Babylon A.D. (2008)
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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:7
Rotten:89
Average Rating:3.2/10
Consensus: A poorly constructed, derivative sci-fi stinker with a weak script and poor action sequences.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr. 40 min.
Theatrical Release: Aug 20, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $22.5M
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Vin Diesel, Mélanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh, Lambert Wilson
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
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REVIEWS FOR BABYLON A.D.
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-
Jan 20, 2009
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.
Jan 12, 2009
Skip it aggressively.
Nov 7, 2008
Top CriticI unfortunately had a seat that faced the screen and I have two hours of my life that I will never get back.
Nov 7, 2008
Top CriticThink of it as Sunset Bloodsport with Jean-Claude as Norma Desmond.
Nov 6, 2008
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.
Oct 18, 2008
This occasionally lavish, often clunky venture is consistently watchable if not terribly memorable or distinctive.
Oct 18, 2008
As if the gruff dialogue isn’t bad enough, the action scenes are merely adequate.
Oct 18, 2008
Strap yourself in for some pure violence and stupidity.
Oct 10, 2008
Whatever happened to Mathieu Kassovitz, the French actor director whose amazing film La Haine made such an impact 13 years ago?
Oct 10, 2008
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.
Oct 3, 2008
Top CriticWith a messy storyline and screenplay to boot, the film feels disjointed and lacking true punch.
Oct 3, 2008
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?
Oct 3, 2008
It's as though the film's final act was accidentally deleted on the digital editing console.
Oct 3, 2008
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
Sep 28, 2008
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.
Sep 27, 2008
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.
Sep 19, 2008
The fact that Aurora incarnates some extreme other possibility -- be it "light" or darkness, miraculous birth or genocide -- makes her one more "mother of the future."
Sep 12, 2008
Loses the few bits of intriguing groundwork it lays amidst a cacophony of mangled editing, lethargic performances, and an utterly unfocused and often contradictory narrative
Sep 11, 2008
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