Don't Believe the Hype

Best movie ever!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

With so much crap out there I find myself watching this move again and again.

this film Babylon Ad:2008 is based on a novel & directed by a french director Matthew Kassovitz.hold on guys let me say this even i though the whole cast got wasted here but ever wonder why because of the terrible editing by the studio the director of this film was angry over this he has every right to be paramount does this a lot but fox should not let their fans down i like their movies it is one of the biggest studio in Hollywood one of my favorite if anyone at fox is reading this please take note.i agree with critics & people who say this film could have been better if the run-time was longer as a lot of action scenes are chopped of specially the car chase scene during the climax where Vin Diesel is blowing things up it looked cool i saw the film it was missing i checked out the censorship report with comparisons of different versions on DVD i say forget those guys it is not worth the money fox needs to release the full uncut version the film would make much more sense.the director blamed fox studio saying they never allowed him to shoot the film as he wanted sad day in history of filmmaking i say i don't know this always happens to foreign directors same thing happened with John Woo almost his every film got edited by Hollywood this is disrespectful.not only during the production but even after the post production studio was interfering now this is being called a french film i am sorry it is a typical Hollywood disaster so please stop saying it is a french film french films are masterpieces because their studios make wise decisions unlike ones in North America. the cast:Vin Diesel looked out of shape but in the shower scene he looks sexy with hairy chest so i sat through this only for him this is definitely one of his weakest performance ever,Michelle Yeoh & Charlotte Rampling got wasted but Melanie Thierry is a nice eye candy but she can do some serious acting if given the right material.the plot:set in the future this is the story of a smuggler who is banned from entering USA he gets a job to deliver a girl inside USA but things don't go easy as always the bad guys are coming after him.the theme was nice it was a interesting concept and had the usual science fiction mixed with mythical & religious nonsense etc.it looked like a road trip movie i tried to enjoy this only because of Vin Diesel even he could not save this mess of a project what is here to talk about direction honestly it was nicely done but hey it don't even matter as a action junkie i would say this movie is crap but on the other hand as a person who likes films with great plots and narratives i would say this film would have nailed it i mean it it could have been the best film of the last decade but sadly the fox studio is responsible for this mess there is too much editing done it looks like the editors wanted to make a mash-up dance video this is why the characters are loose cannons & film don't make much sense no matter what.Overall Babylon A.D:2008 is only for hardcore Vin Diesel fans only i have to say i am one so i watched this only for him my rating is 3/10.

This movie is a very simple action movie, full of clichés popping out of the screen every minute or so. Even for the unambitious pretension of "action movie", it stills falls short of what you could expect to be a good one. Surely it has some qualities, but they are greatly overshadowed by the weak plot, directing, etc. If you are a fan of dystopian stories, you may enjoy watching it for its background story, but the main one is simply... bad. I, particularly, enjoyed the movie mainly because it's so bad I kept laughing at it. If you aren't so lighthearted, and doesn't have a particular taste for dystopia, you should steer clear of this movie.

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