Babylon A.D.

From ComingSoon.net





Release Date: August 29, 2008
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Screenwriter: Eric Besnard
Starring: Vin Diesel, Gérard Depardieu, Michelle Yeoh, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong, Radek Bruna, Melanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action, language and some sexuality)
Official Website: Not Available
Review: Not Available
DVD Review: Not Available
DVD: Not Available
Movie Poster: Not Available
Production Stills: View here
Plot Summary: A veteran-turned-mercenary (Vin Diesel) agrees to escort a woman from Russia to Germany, not realizing that she's the host for an organism that a cult wants to harvest into a genetically-modified Messiah. Based on the novel by Maurice G. Dantec.

Behind-the-Scenes Teaser (6.28.07):
Flash Player


looks like they even have a teaser poster:

__________________
I used to be addicted to crystal meth, now I'm just addicted to Breaking Bad.

I saw the trailer for this flick and it looked pretty watchable. Consider the source though, I'm unreliable.

__________________
We are both the source of the problem and the solution, yet we do not see ourselves in this light...

To watch the trailer for Vin Diesel's Babylon A.D click here.

I'm a big fan of Vin Diesel's science fiction, he does an excellent job in them, and this has some potential. Keeping that in mind, I will give it a chance at the theaters, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

__________________
"This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined." -Baruch Spinoza

This is a film that im really looking forward to and hope Vin Diesel does a good job.

__________________

~In the event of a Zombie Uprising, remember to sever the head or destroy the brain!~

This makes me sad. What happened to Mathieu Kassovitz?

Just saw this this movie last night, it was an ok movie, thought it could have been done better. My question is there going to be a sequel to this or not? The end really implies that there will be. if not then the ending really blows... lol

WARNING--SPOILERS BELOW

Just saw B.A.D, which is what it was! Here's my jumbled thoughts...

Ok, so I'm sitting on my couch, it's 11PM on a Sunday night, and Babylon A.D. with Vin Diesel comes on cable. Work is gonna blow tomorrow anyway, so I settle in with a bowl of Campbell's chicken noodle. After about 15 minutes, I noticed the soup dribbling on the couch from my slack jaw! The horribleness of this movie seeped out of every plothole! This thing was completely drenched in wrong sauce! I mean, it must have started out as a great project. Look at the actors they got---Superstar Vin Diesel (well...sort of), the yumminess of actresses Michelle Yeoh and Melanie Thierry, the classy European actors like Gerard D and Charlotte Rampling. I mean this movie probably started out as a major project. Don't know what happened after that, maybe the producers got their weed cards that day... who knows...

So Plot..... From what I could figure out, Vin Diesel is a jaded mercenary (a stretch, I know) hired by a Russian mobster to transport 2 mysterious ladies to America. The young Michelle-Pfeiffer-type girl has mysterious powers of some kind, and Michelle Yeoh is there to basically show off her kung fu skills (remember her? she was the cool sword lady in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Only thing is, she only got off about 7 or 8 lame Karate Chops before they gunned her down. Robbed! I would gladly watch a whole movie of just her fighting a cheeseburger. Anyway, somehow they have to get to America with everyone missing at them with machine guns, targeted by a mysterious religion-boss-lady (Charlotte Rampling). Not even a cool religion-boss-lady, like with kung fu skills, and blade-claws and bombs-in-the-hat, either. However, she does kill her ex-husband point blank with a gun, so she gets some nasty-points for that.

Lots of slow motion jumping away from explosions (I really hate that--in a real explosion you'd be in pieces before you even think to take your first step, but what the hell, I will suspend my disbelief even further for this one). The lamest snowmobile chase I have ever seen in the movies. Actually, I haven't seen many snowmobile chases in movies....why? Cause snowmobile chases suck, that's why. Stop it Hollywood.

I did like the high-tech Vin-Diesel-seeking mini-missile. That was a cool idea to start with, only my problem with it? If you can afford to open a briefcase, and take out a custom high-tech mini-Vin-Diesel-seeking mini-missile, why does it fly and explode in slow motion?

So he can jump away from the explosion? Is that why? Grrrrrr....

Finally, the standard hunka-love scene where the SWT (sweet young thing) tries to get it on with our hero VD (nice initials, Vin, LOL) I know they wanted Vin Diesel to be kinda rough-looking for his character, but it did kinda look like she yanked the Polish janitor out of the motel hallway for a little hairy shower nooky. Pretty yucky scene...

I couldn't even tell ya what happened at the end. Quick shot of a couple of kids calling Vin Diesel daddy, a nice house, and then fadeout to black. They should have flashed WTF over the credits, cause that's what I was saying at that point.

Sorry for the negativity, but I so wanted this movie to work-- Earl

__________________
Under-the-radar Movie Awesomeness.
http://earlsmoviepicks.blogspot.com/

I am disappointed heartfully after watching this movie. Such a weird movie !

Just saw this the other day. I definitely can understand what the director and Diesel said about the edits. It definitely seemed like huge chunks that would have explained more and set the stage were taken out of the movie.

I thougth they needed way more info and examination of the world that everyone was living in, there was a lot that wasn't explained that should have been IMO.

__________________
You must have big rats if you need Hattori Hanzo's steel.

-Hattori Hanzo