ROTTEN TOMATOES: Explosions! Tigers! Strippers! It's the Teaser Trailer for Diesel's "Babylon A.D."!

Explosions! Tigers! Strippers! It's the Teaser Trailer for Diesel's "Babylon A.D."!

by Scott Weinberg | July 03, 2007

Hey, remember action star Vin Diesel? Well, he's back.

Aside from "The Pacifier," "Find Me Guilty," and a really goofy cameo in "Tokyo Drift," we haven't seen a whole lot from Vin Diesel lately -- especially in the action genre. Looks like all that's about to change with the arrival of Mathieu Kassovitz's "Babylon A.D." And if this behind-the-scenes teaser trailer is any indication, it's going to be a pretty chaotic affair.

Click here to see the teaser at Vin's official site, and then pop back here to let us know if the promo clip has you pumped to see "Babylon A.D." The IMDb describes the plot like this: "Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop (Diesel) takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah."

So it's "Children of Men" meets "Cherry 2000." And I really ought to offer a bonus prize to anyone who actually remembers "Cherry 2000."

Scheduled for release next February, "Babylon" is the second English-language feature from the French filmmaker. His first was ... "Gothika." But "Gothika" didn't have tigers, strippers, fistfights, explosions, and Michelle Yeoh.

Source: One Race Films

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Crenshaw writes:
on Jul 03 2007 11:38 AM

Ahh, Cherry 2000, the highlight Melanie Griffith's career.

Damn you RT, for making me remember that movie! :-P

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arpeggio191 writes:
on Jul 03 2007 12:47 PM

this just looks terrible. Vin Diesel sucks.

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Segkee writes:
on Jul 03 2007 01:36 PM

I lost my masturbatoral virginity to Cherry 2000. You could say I popped my cherry 2000. Nice.

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pulgasari writes:
on Jul 03 2007 01:52 PM

"Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest to produce a genetically modified Messiah."
An alien Jesus? Weeeeeiirrd... But at least it's something different from the usual noisy action crap Vin Diesel is in (XXX, The Fast and the Furious).

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bigbrother writes:
on Jul 03 2007 02:39 PM

Sounds alot like that Van Damme flick Cyborg as well. Plots definately been done before. Hopefully with a bigger budget they'll give us something new visually.

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dagreenman18 writes:
on Jul 03 2007 03:21 PM

it's not much of a teaser, considering it doesn't so any actual movie footage. The flipping snowmobiles give me XXX flashbacks, so im a little worried.

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PopeAndrewPaul writes:
on Jul 03 2007 04:52 PM

Looks like XXX.

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MovieSamurai writes:
on Jul 03 2007 04:56 PM

wow the future has segways actually being used I know I want to see the segway revolution which makes me want to see this movie

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trever writes:
on Jul 03 2007 05:08 PM

CRAP!!!! By the way, it is segue, just learned that myself

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WeaponAndy writes:
on Jul 03 2007 07:59 PM

I'll give it a shot when it comes out. Doesn't look too bad from the small teaser. The plot seems standard fair, but whatever. It's Vinny D back playing a bad ass instead of a bad ass who watches kids or a guy with hair...weird.

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mjolson20 writes:
on Jul 03 2007 08:40 PM

Looks tight

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mjolson20 writes:
on Jul 03 2007 08:41 PM

how does it sound like a van damme flick??? ya its an action movie besides that it looks anything but street fighter or bloodsport.

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mjolson20 writes:
on Jul 03 2007 08:43 PM

plus what the hell are u guys talkin about all this other shit for like cherry 2000..comment about the actual movie teaser u just watched

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mjolson20 writes:
on Jul 03 2007 08:50 PM

[b]A MOVIE FOR GUYS WHO LIKE MOVIES[/b]
PLUS INLESS UR A HOMO HOW COULD U NOT WANT 2 WATCH A FLICK WITH STRIPPERS, EXPOLOSIONS, tigers i guess AND STRIPPERS!

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twinsfan2715 writes:
on Jul 03 2007 09:28 PM

not a big vin diesel fan, but the plot sounds intriguing and the teaser is hardly a trailer; i'll keep my eyes open on this one, but not too excited

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jeanpaul writes:
on Jul 04 2007 02:09 AM

[b]Looks like "XXX"[/b]
Just as stupid, that is...

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jacog writes:
on Jul 04 2007 05:36 AM

In reply to this comment (#883417)
Please tell me you are just making a sarky joke... pleeeeease.

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bigbrother writes:
on Jul 04 2007 06:26 AM

In reply to this comment (#883415)
I didn't say it sounds like A Van Damme flick like Bloodsport or Street Fighter. I said it sounds like THE Van Damme flick "Cyborg" In which Van Damme plays a mercenary, I think they called them Slingers, and escorts a woman across a twisted futuristic wasteland. I think the woman was actually a robot or something and she had something or some information that was going to save the world. Not unlike a Messiah. Read a little more carefully before you get your man juices flowing and go off half-cocked.

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High School With Money writes:
on Jul 04 2007 07:48 AM

[b]Poledouris 2000[/b]
[i]Cherry 2000[/i]. FANTASTIC musical score. There was a movie?

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Brad 3000 writes:
on Jul 04 2007 09:20 AM

[b]Cherry 2000[/b]
Was a very weird movie with Melanie Griffith as a bounty hunter helping a dude rescue his sex-robot from some psycho-cult hippies in a postapocalyptic wasteland. It was directed by Stephen DeJarnet, who also directed a really kick @$$ movie called Miracle Mile, which everyone should see without reading any kind of plot synopsis. Oh and he also wrote Strange Brew.

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