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Babylon A.D.

Play trailer 1:51 Poster for Babylon A.D. PG-13 2008 1h 30m Sci-Fi Action Adventure Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a battle-hardened mercenary, Toorop (Vin Diesel), lives by his own code and the credo kill or be killed. His latest assignment is to escort a young woman named Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) and her guardian, Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh), from Kazakhstan to New York. Facing danger at each turn, Toorop begins to realize that Aurora represents the last hope for mankind's survival.
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Critics Consensus

A poorly constructed, derivative sci-fi stinker with a weak script and poor action sequences.

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle 10/18/2008
1.5/5
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. Go to Full Review
Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald 10/10/2008
2.5/5
Strap yourself in for some pure violence and stupidity. Go to Full Review
David Stratton At the Movies (Australia) 10/10/2008
0.5/5
Whatever happened to Mathieu Kassovitz, the French actor director whose amazing film La Haine made such an impact 13 years ago? Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com 09/11/2021
3/5
...as futuristic visions go, Babylon A.D. actually gets a lot right... Go to Full Review
Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal 04/13/2020
1.5/5
Defenders contest that Matthieu Kassovitz's director's cut is preferable. It certainly couldn't have a more incomprehensible ending. Silver lining? Vin Diesel remembered that movie where a sub cracks the ice and did it better a decade later. Go to Full Review
Mattie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) 06/05/2019
1.5/4
There are some high ideas to be found buried beneath all the rubble, but they're so obscured by the banal, hyperactive action scenes that they don't really register. Go to Full Review
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Gerald H Sep 2 💩🤢🤮💩🤢🤮💩🤢🤮💩🤢🤮💩🤢🤮💩🤢🤮 See more Louis S Aug 23 One star, because it had a few interesting ideas and was actually feeling like it could be good for awhile. I thought the acting was also good, but what a lame story and ending! Yeeesh! See more Blu B Mar 18 I could give this a 1 honestly but I feel like it's slightly better than that. That's the ebst comment this is going to get. Now on to the list of everything wrong. The acting is terrible....Vin Diesel is just terrible....like making J Law. in Dark Phoenix look like Christian Bale level bad. And I swear he brings down everyone else around him. Yeoh and the girl have no chemistry at all in this with him. There boring, lifeless at times, and the girl especially has such a crazy, stupid, ridiculous character. Believing Diesel and the girl would be lovers which is creepy to begin with makes Anikan & Padme in Attack of the Clones look like Casablanca. There also is a weird lack of consistnet villians in this too. I know theres the doctors at the end but they barely are in this. It's so weird. The cinematography is really bad. It feels like the different locales throughout this have no sense of style to them. The opening area doesn't even feel like it belongs in a dystopian Sci-Fi flick but like a modern war movie. NYC looks like Blade Runner. The snow areas and clu look like they belong in a generic action movie. And this makes it feel like there isn't even any direction in this. It literally feels directionless at times. Than add all the truly just bizarre scenes which get more and more stacked towards the end. The pregnancy, him being brought back days later, the weird creepy romance, her being the savior, the over the top stupid fights in this, and more. Music isn't good either. This starts with weird modern rap tracks and generic scores for a Sci-Fi flick that doesn't fit and than it just gets really boring and forgettable. Everything else is horrifcally bad. The opening scene I swear is just makes no sense and is stupid. Every action scene just comes out of nowhere with no build up at all. This jumps around like crazy at the end with crazy ideas that we had no idea or were let on about. The majority of the runtime is about them escaping pursuing forces and him delivering her to the destination and were never given any inkling of any of the crazy revelations at the end. (Or if we are I can't tell because of how poorly done this is) So it just comes across as beyond bizarre at the end and out of nowhere. Than it just feels like it ends too anticlimatically after all the nonsense. Skip this. Absolutely terrible See more Evan S @Evman64 Mar 1 I thought it was great, very entertaining. It’s very easy to follow, and there’s some satisfying action packed moments. See more Van N 08/01/2024 Vinny D with another stellar performance, this guy does NOT miss!!! Wish I could watch this movie everyday but I got responsibilities and stuff. Love you Vinny See more Michael S @mstrocko 05/03/2024 For its first hour, this is your average post-apocalyptic sci-fi film. Loner escorting a young girl with a secret. Things go waaaaaaaaay off the rails in the last 30 minutes. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a battle-hardened mercenary, Toorop (Vin Diesel), lives by his own code and the credo kill or be killed. His latest assignment is to escort a young woman named Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) and her guardian, Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh), from Kazakhstan to New York. Facing danger at each turn, Toorop begins to realize that Aurora represents the last hope for mankind's survival.
Director
Mathieu Kassovitz
Producer
Alain Goldman, Mathieu Kassovitz, Selwyn Roberts
Screenwriter
Mathieu Kassovitz, Éric Besnard
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
Canal+, M6 Films Production, StudioCanal
Rating
PG-13 (Intense Sequences of Violence|Intense Sequences of Action|Language|Some Sexuality)
Genre
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 29, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$22.5M
Runtime
1h 30m
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