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Vin Diesel (Actor), Michelle Yeoh (Actor), Mathieu Kassovitz (Director, Producer) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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  • Actors: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gerard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling
  • Directors: Mathieu Kassovitz
  • Producers: Mathieu Kassovitz, Alain Goldman
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Dec. 2008
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (97 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001HY4TGO
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 68,539 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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High octane, sci-fi action thriller set in a not-too-distant, dystopian future. Vin Diesel stars as Toorop, a mercenary who accepts the risky mission of escorting a young woman named Aurora (Melanie Thierry) from Central Asia to New York. Under the impression that this is a job like any other, Toorop is shocked to discover that his charge is pregnant. Not only that - the twins Aurora is carrying have the potential to become the next Messiahs, and Toorop's bosses are not the only ones showing an interest...

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While not the career shot-in-the-arm that Vin Diesel was probably looking for and certainly needs, Babylon AD does have its merits, and they make it just the kind of fodder waiting to greet a DVD audience.

The plot of Babylon AD sees Diesel heading from Europe to New York, transporting a package that turns out to be more than it first seems. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Diesel’s mercenary character inevitably comes up against the dangers and problems of a world in chaos and disarray. This is a cue for plenty of action, and some solid effects, all of which are easy on the eye and the brain.

The problem with Babylon AD, though, is that the plot doesn’t make a great deal of sense, and the film displays all the hallmarks of one that’s been hacked too far in the editing room. This doesn’t fatally hurt it, but it certainly inflicts a good deal of damage.

As it stands, Babylon AD is a decent, and comparably brisk futuristic thriller, that had the potential to be a lot more than it is. But at worst, it’s still enjoyable enough, and a decent way to spend an easy night in front of the telly. --Jon Foster

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3.0 out of 5 starsNot as bad as its reputation - if you see the extended version
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 17 Nov. 2010
Format: DVD
Infamous as the film that was so bad even its director went public to warn audiences off (albeit his complaints were mainly aimed at the incomprehensible studio cut that is released as a single disc DVD), Babylon A.D. may be a huge step down from the days when Mathieu Kassovitz was making the likes of La Haine or even The Crimson Rivers, but in the director's preferred version released in French theatres and on DVD as the `extended version,' it's an okay silly scifi action film. There's not much in the way of the ideas from Maurice G. Dantec's novel that attracted him to the project in the first place and it's little more than another derivative Children of Men-style chase through a future dystopia with a few added cyberpunk fittings as Vin Diesel's mercenary is hired by an unrecognisable Gerard Depardieu's Russian mobster to deliver Mélanie Thierry's genetically engineered mystery girl from Eastern Europe to New York with a little help from Michelle Yeoh's two-fisted nun and hindrance from Charlotte Rampling's corporate religion and mad scientist Lambert Wilson's followers.

Take it seriously and it's a non-starter, but take it as an overpriced bit of Euro comicstrip nonsense with the odd striking scene - a terrorist bombing in a crowded railway station, refugees trying to scrabble aboard a submarine before it submerges beneath the ice - and it's an okay if rather familiar timefiller. The longer 'harder' cut certainly isn't a profound rediscovered masterpiece, but unlike the shorter cinema version that seemed to have been hacked to pieces by a combine harvester, the plot and characters do make a lot more sense and you do get to see Mark Strong with hair.
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4.0 out of 5 starsSurprisingly Impressive.
By Amazon Customer on 31 Oct. 2010
Format: DVD
Despite being a huge sci-fi fan I have always found Vin Diesel's films to be very disappointing with the exception of Pitch Black. I will spare the long list of criticisms but usually the dialogue is a big let down for me. That said though I do like the guy and his enthusiasm so I picked this up because it was on offer and I was frankly curious thinking lets give it a chance. I was preparing myself for disappointment but I was very surprised to find myself really enjoying it.

Firstly I thought the envisioned tech level for the time period felt very realistic. In particular the massive divides between rich and poor societies. Although perhaps portraying the East as one enormous ghetto like something out the "STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl" games as opposed to having poorer war torn areas and affluent ones was a mistake. The portrayal of life in the complex, getting food at the start and the style and appearance of Diesels's apartment at the beginning scored instant points for just seeming 'right'. In addition there were many small little features which showed that someone had gone to a lot of trouble to think this future through (e.g. the paper maps, the surveillance footage, the submarine etc.).

The plot raced along merrily enough and I enjoyed the very strong cyberpunk feel (Yes I have read Gibson and Sterling so I do say that with confidence). Some of the action scenes and fighting did let things down as the film was doing such a good job of presenting a realistic portrayal of life in the future that having hordes of bad guys getting their backsides kicked did seem silly which was a great shame. Furthermore, some of the sci-fi concepts were really interesting and could have been expanded upon. The AI conditioned unborn children for starters (awesome idea!Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsYou could have knocked....
By Corey Newcombe on 3 Feb. 2014
Format: DVD
In a near future, mercenary Toorop is hired to take a woman named Aurora from aConvent in to New York.

In return, he will receive a large amount of money and a clear passport. Toorop joins Aurora and her guardian Sister Rebeka as they cross the dangerous Russian landscape chased by mercenaries that also want Aurora.

On their journey, Toorop discovers that Aurora has special abilities and once in New York, Aurora discloses that she is a virgin and pregnant with twin.,

Toorop realise that there is something sinister behind his mission and that he and Sister Rebeka are not part of Gorsky's plans.

Another huge failure from Diesel and Co, this was more of the studios fault rather than the star and director, and it's clear that this was chopped up to the point that it's almost difficult to comprehend what is going on other that we move from set piece to set piece with little happening I between.

If you liked Diesel in A Man Apart and other below average offerings from him (more or less everything he's done post Pitch Black), you will discover that he plays the same character in every film, looking moody and fed up.

Mark Strong and Cyrano De Bergerac show up for no good reason, and the whole thing finishes abruptly without much explanation of anything.

It's Children of Men for people with a non-existent attention span, and while not as bad as it made out to be, it's pretty darn close.
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2.0 out of 5 starsVin Diesel? Cornelius Toorop?
By Ironspider on 19 Feb. 2010
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First off, I really like Babylon Babies by Maurice Dantec; it's a complex tale of social engineering and evolution, both racial and individual. Toorop, the hero of the tale, is a philosophical warrior who has seen too many conflicts and not enough resolutions.

Toorop is also around fifty years of age, Vin Diesel isn't - the beginning of the films' divergence from the book! The film tries to boil down the complexities of the book into a more linear action film, but it doesn't work. I suppose Christophe Gans might have made a better director and added some French flair to the proceedings, but it's hard to see any film really doing justice to Dantec's story.

So, Babylon AD is a fun action film, but it leaves out all the questions Dantec poses, opting instead for louder gunfights, and replaces Toorop's anguished musings with Mr Diesel's sometimes incomprehensible drawl. Even Michelle Yeoh spends most of her screen time looking slightly bemused, whether because of the script or a feeling she was in the wrong film... The other players in the story fulfil the necessary roles, but there isn't anything new or shiny to raise this above the other sci-fi actioners that unfortunately take the place of decent science fiction films.
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