Babylon A.D. Review
Science-fiction blockbusters are beginning to front some of Hollywood’s most aggressive crusades. Babylon A.D. is a futuristic thriller with Old Testament twists. It’s also a 6,000-mile road trip complete with the most unlikely short-cut since Charlton Heston parted the Red Sea in 1956.
The film begins in an Eastern European slum clogged with gangs of hungry soldiers hawking guns for money. The hero is an unreconstructed beefcake, Vin Diesel, who is offered a mission to save the world. “Save the world?” Vin grumbles as he casually garrottes a Russian soldier on his way home. “Whatever for?” It’s difficult to argue when it rains like a firehose every time one goes for a pint of milk.
Money as ever oils the wheels. Vin might dress like a tramp but underneath all that Boy Scout clobber he is a lethal gun-for-hire, perhaps the best. Before the credits stop rolling Vin has extinguished a couple of extras with extreme prejudice, rustled up a delicate rabbit stew, and admitted in his gravelly voiceover that he has to die to save the girl, the world, his bank balance, and possibly his soul, but not necessarily in that order.
A rich terrorist (Gérard Depardieu at his greasy, seedy best) offers Vin a fortune to smuggle a sexy young virgin, Aurora (Mélanie Thierry), from a convent in Outer Mongolia to a penthouse suite in New York.
Babylon AD 2008 Movie Trailer
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09 November 2008 4:48pm - Entertainment ||
