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.
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01/12/09
Babylon A.D. (2008)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:7
Rotten:90
Average Rating:3.2/10
Consensus: A poorly constructed, derivative sci-fi stinker with a weak script and poor action sequences.
Theatrical Release:29-08-2008
Synopsis: In sci-fi thriller BABYLON A.D., Vin Diesel's Toorop is an antihero who quotes the best of cinema's bad boys from films such as THE GODFATHER and SCARFACE. But all the tattooed muscleman really... [More]
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Melanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Reviews for Babylon A.D.
Skip it aggressively.
11/07/08
I unfortunately had a seat that faced the screen and I have two hours of my life that I will never get back.
11/07/08
Think of it as Sunset Bloodsport with Jean-Claude as Norma Desmond.
11/06/08
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.
10/18/08
As if the gruff dialogue isn’t bad enough, the action scenes are merely adequate.
10/18/08
Strap yourself in for some pure violence and stupidity.
10/10/08
Whatever happened to Mathieu Kassovitz, the French actor director whose amazing film La Haine made such an impact 13 years ago?
10/10/08
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.
10/03/08
With a messy storyline and screenplay to boot, the film feels disjointed and lacking true punch.
10/03/08
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?
10/03/08
It's as though the film's final act was accidentally deleted on the digital editing console.
10/03/08
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
09/28/08
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.
09/27/08
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.
09/19/08
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."
09/12/08
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
09/11/08
...an unruly disaster.
09/10/08
It's the kind of film that's such a waste of time and resources, you have to wonder why it was made in the first place.
09/08/08
'Oh well,' said Vin, as the lights came up and the crickets sang their lonely song, 'there's always my moving company: '2 guys and Vin Diesel will move you.''
09/06/08
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