After Babylon AD, star Vin Diesel quickly returned to the Fast and Furious franchise. Wise move.Babylon AD is a short film, edited to shreds by the film production company and the director disowned his own movie due to the studio interference. You can tell because it has a derivative and boring look, bad dialogue, uninspired action scenes and I am not sure what really happened at the end, the film just finished.The film is set in a dystopian near future Diesel plays Toorop a tough mercenary hired to bring a mysterious genetically modified young woman, Aurora from Russia to America. Aurora has been raised in a convent and knows little about the world around her. Michelle Yeoh plays a kung fu nun sidekick who is Aurora's guardian.As Toorop is wanted in America he himself has to be smuggled inside while unsavoury people are after them and Aurora displays some special powers. Waiting for Aurora in New York is a high priestess who plans to use her special abilities to develop a new religion.There is an interesting and diverse cast that includes Gerard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling and Mark Strong. The plot has shades of The Transporter and Children of Men but I would just watch The Fifth Element as it is more fun.

This is an awful movie. It is messed up. The plot is unclear and such good actors are wasted. The visual effects are good actually and the idea would be a lot better in a book or comic than in a movie. As seawalker writes "The presentation of the near future world in "Babylon A.D." is beautifully done. Compare and contrast the difference between the collapsing, grunge-like, shabby Eastern Bloc, with the hi-tech, neon lit New York. Very well put together." This movie has some aspects that does not really fit to the society. Vin Diesel is an excellent actor; although he is the main character and his work is outstanding, it does not help the movie. Compared to some science fiction movies like: Inception, Star Wars or Minority Report. This movie does not stand a chance against these really good movies from the last 20 years. I am also agreeing seawalker in the movie being a mess because throughout editing some important plot parts have been edited and even left out. This is kind of unfair because the movie is only 90 minutes long, and a lot of science fiction movies reach the 120, 150 minutes. Another aspect is explaining some thongs more. Some parts of the movie, as i said before, are unclear and you have not idea of what is happening. This makes the movie kind of repetitive and tedious. I want to thank seawalker for his important review and ask the people to read his review for more important information.

Babylon A.D. is directed by Mathieu Kassovitz who also co-adapts to the screen with Éric Besnard & Joseph Simas from the Maurice G. Dantec novel, Babylon Babies. It stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gérard Depardieu and Charlotte Rampling. Music is by Atli Örvarsson and photography by Thierry Arbogast.It's the future and mercenary Toorop (Diesel) agrees to do a high risk job of escorting an other worldly woman from Russia to America. Easier said than done since many others would like to obtain her as well.It's now on record as being a film that suffered many problems during production, be it the weather, studio interference (film has more producers than there were people in it!) or crumbling sets, it was a tough old shoot and director Kassovitz has disowned the film. Available now in a longer unrated/directors cut, the film is still a mess of a movie, which is a shame because the story is a hot one and the look and feel is suitably dystopian.On a basic level it achieves some expectations, Diesel is perfectly brooding and macho, we want him to punch, kick and shoot his way thru the movie, and he does. Yeoh, it would be a waste not to let her kick ass, and so she does, while a hankering for some futuristic gadgets and sci-fi babble (here in the guise of genetic manipulation) is well and truly catered for. But it's constructed badly as the film is choppy in pace and the scatter gun editing is simply awful. Quick fire camera work can work in action movies, but here it renders the action unwatchable, and is more likely to induce travel sickness than any sort of exhilaration. As for the dialogue, one is more likely to believe that it was written by a pre-teen than a full grown adult.Diesel's bruising efforts and the Cyberpunk design aside, it's a film that's hard to recommend with any sort of confidence. 4/10

Terrible script, terrible storyline, cheap graphics, total rip of Blade Runner, practically shot for shot in places, the ending makes no sense, and i like Kassovitz, La Haine was amazing, he was great in Amelie, just the worst film ever, Babylon AD, big dull dud, Vin Diesal mutters through out. All it needs is the Wilhelm scream, nothing is explained in ad i don't need to see a dead cat chopped up and eaten. Gerard Depardieu looks like a potato, it also rips off Star Wars when hes in Tattooine, god i cant hate this film enough. Im sure there is a wall with wet paint on it that is preferable to watching this film, its 90 minutes of my life i wont get back, what about Ramplings character? What happens to her? she just walks off after apparently searching for her kid for years, come on! I mean the only difference is she actually stayed fully clothed for once. Avoid at all costs.