Babylon A.D.

Times Watched: 1
Watched With: Miss Q @ Cathay EHub (11/09)
Snacks: Corn Dog & Green Tea

another futuristic action movie? hmmmm.

It is the future. A time where people sell guns on the street and extinct animals can be cloned back to life.
Toorop (Vin Diesel) is a mercenary for hire and Gorsky (Gerard Depardieu) intends to make use of Toorop's talents.

The job? To smuggle a girl to America.

Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) has a special gift that seems to be of interest to several parties. So Toorop and Sister Rebecca (Michelle Yeoh), a nun and guardian of Aurora must try to transport her across the borders.
And in the mean time several other people including mysterious Darquandier (Lambert Wilson) and the religious sect The Neolites want their hands on the girl as well.
Worse type.

I had read reviews about this movie before i watched it.
And they were all bad.
But when the movie started I began to think that maybe they were wrong. The show started out well enough with an interesting premise.
But the more and more the show went on, the deeper and deeper it crawled into the unending pit known as "sucks to the max".

Director Mathieu Kassovitz had complained that the studios took a beautiful plot and forced him to make an action movie instead of an action film.
Hmmm... maybe if they had let the director do his thing then maybe the plot wouldn't have degraded to the point of being horribly predictable.
And a note to the director - not bad. But you REALLY need to work on your fight scenes bub. way tooooo close-quarters for my taste.

Well at least Vin Diesel was entertaining as usual.
This movie actually started with a passing rating. But alas it was not to be.

Is it ironic that the first letters for each word of this movie's title spell out - B.A.D??

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