Review - Babylon A.D.
BABYLON A.D. [PG-13]
Sci-fi epics like Babylon A.D. are a lot like Frankenstein’s monster. They are large and clumsy, and stitched together from the parts of many others. And with an action hero like Vin Diesel in the lead, the best it can muster when it speaks is echoes of Peter Boyle’s cry, “Super duper!” from Mel Brooks’s “Young Frankenstein.”
Puttin’ on the glitz here is French writer-director and former arthouse darling Mathieu Kassovitz (”Hate”). He has the story of a mysterious young nun named Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) and Toorop (Diesel), the muscle hired to shuttle them from Russia to New York, with which to work, and a number of thoughtful touches suggest that some far more thoughtful was intended. Instead, this vague, heavily dystopian future tale appears to have been heavily edited by studio Fox for length and to earn a more marketable PG-13 rating, and it neuters the film right […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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