For all its generic qualities, Babylon A.D. is well acted, briskly paced and consistently clear: Like Neil Marshall's Doomsday, it's bare-bones genre entertainment, no better or worse than it ought to be.
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09/02/08
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.
Did we actually NEED a brain-dead action version of Children of Men? I say no.
09/02/08
The only explicable thing about Babylon A.D. is that it was not screened in advance for critics.
09/02/08
Top CriticThe final third is a stretch of moviemaking so utterly lacking in coherence and competence that Ed Wood himself would have been embarrassed to have had his good name attached to the results.
09/02/08
I almost feel bad for Vin Diesel, a genuinely nice guy who has reached the end of his rope as far as his career is concerned.
09/02/08
People that love Sci-Fi films will probably find a few things to like about it, but those looking for a slick production better look elsewhere.
09/02/08
I found myself sorta not hating it, and sorta fascinated by it, for about 45 minutes or so. Alas that the movie's about 90 minutes long.
09/01/08
It's no surprise that the movie is bad and offers nothing of value to paying customers.
09/01/08
A French author coupled with a French director. How could Hollywood have thought this was a good idea?
09/01/08
Who recut it, Stevie Wonder?
08/31/08
While Babylon A.D. isn't the worst big-budget sci-fi film ever made, it comes near enough to merit avoiding at all costs.
08/31/08
You know what? I like Vin Diesel. And I'm glad to see he's back in action movies instead of junk like "The Pacifier."It's a shame that this isn't the movie it could be.
08/31/08
A dreadful tedious science fiction mess with aspirations that are destroyed in a haze of terrible dialogue and an impossibly hazy directorial style...
08/31/08
It's all terribly muddled, jumbled and oddly inert, considering the amount of things that explode and other things that go bang
08/30/08
Undeniably awful.
08/30/08
So bad it will make you nostalgic for The Pacifier.
08/30/08
Diesel sums it all up when he narrates early on, "Too bad it was the day I died." Was he referring to his character, or his career?
08/30/08
Whether the fault lies with a script crying out for further drafts before shooting, or a cheap studio shutting off its director's creativity in order to save a buck, the dubious result remains the same. Babylon A.D. is a mess.
08/29/08
Seems simply like the aftermath of an artistic apocalypse.
08/29/08
I still have no idea why we were following around most of the people in this movie, and I don't think the actors in it do either. If they don't know what they're doing then it's doubtful you will.
08/29/08
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