You know a film doesn't have a lot going for it when even its director isn't exactly thrilled with the final product.
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09/05/08
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.
It will provide a fix of mindless violence, but that's about it.
09/05/08
No matter who's responsible, the movie is a dud -- one so sped-up and illogical, it's almost painful to sit through.
09/05/08
"xXx meets Blade Runner"...far from the worst film of the year and plays quite well as a bare-bones genre film. I think it'll find a new lease of life on DVD.
09/05/08
Sure it's a bad film, but what makes it worse is the ending, which is the worst of the year.
09/04/08
There's a lot to not love about the film...[but it's] one of the most thoughtfully designed post-apocalypse futures put on film in years.
09/04/08
'Babylon A.D.' has ideas, but they are hopelessly lost in a story with no interior logic.
09/04/08
I didn't even understand the title, much less the rest of the movie
09/03/08
it's impossible to get excited about a movie when the leading man looks bored.
09/03/08
Much mayhem, brawling, dubious CGI, close encounters of the sexual kind and mystical gibberish ensue. Little of it makes sense. Less of it is exciting.
09/02/08
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.
09/02/08
Even if it never finds an audience outside L.A., someone ought to write a book called When Dull Films Happen To Clever Production Designers.
09/02/08
An abysmal French thriller in which everyone -- Diesel included -- speaks as if they've learned their lines phonetically.
09/02/08
[A] futuristic mess of biblical proportions.
09/02/08
Top CriticBabylon's plot is a lumpy mixture of The Fifth Element and Children of Men, while its dystopian future references Blade Runner, Dune, and The Matrix.
09/02/08
A must-see only for fans of snowmobile chases.
09/02/08
When this Vin Diesel vehicle isn't pointlessly frenzied, it's narratively inert, wasting some decent production design, and a French-flavored cast primed for fun.
09/02/08
'I'm very unhappy with the film,' the director recently told an online magazine. Join the club.
09/02/08
Without whatever strident critique Kassovitz intends, it's a typical B action movie -- the inevitable pseudo-warm bonding scenes deadly, the fights largely incoherent -- with the occasional pleasing set-piece.
09/02/08
Babylon feels like an almost random pastiche of good and bad. There may be a deadly virus, or genetic engineering, or a virgin birth, or some combination of all, it's not clear.
09/02/08
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September 03, 2008:
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