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Vin Diesel muscles his way from Eastern Europe to New York City in this post-apocalyptic thriller. The actor plays a mercenary who must take a package west in the midst of a crumbling world, but the package is more than it appears. French director Mathieu Kassovitz (LA HAINE, GOTHIKA) helms this film based on the novel BABYLON BABIES by Maurice G. Dantec.Product Identifiers
EAN5039036040204
eBay Product ID (ePID)69213649
Product Key Features
ActorCharlotte Rampling, Michelle Khan, Jerome Le Banner, Vin Diesel, Lambert Wilson, Gerard Depardieu, Melanie Thierry, Mark Strong
Film/TV TitleBabylon A.D.
DirectorMathieu Kassovitz
LanguageEnglish
Run Time87 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2008
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen
GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate12A/12
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Additional InformationIn sci-fi thriller BABYLON A.D., Vin Diesel's Toorop is an antihero who quotes the best of cinema's bad boys from films such as THE GODFATHER and SCARFACE. But all the tattooed muscleman really wants to do is leave poverty- and violence-ridden Russia and return to his family's home in upstate New York. However, he has been banned from his native America, so when a Russian mobster (a prosthetic-enhanced GΘrard Depardieu) offers him a job and a forged passport that will take him back home, he agrees, even though the mission seems close to suicide. He takes a strangely gifted orphan named Aurora (Melanie Thierry) from a Mongolian convent to Harlem, his only help being a nun--though it is a nun played by action star Michelle Yeoh. Thugs attack them on every leg of their journey, following them as they take car, train, sub, and snowmobile to ensure Aurora's safety.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>BABYLON A.D works best when it's revealing facets of its futuristic world, from the refugee-camp look of Russia to the high-tech gloss of a 22-million-people-strong New York City. Production designers Sonja Klaus and Paul Cross, as well as director Mathieu Kassovitz (GOTHIKA), deserve praise for creating settings that evoke memories of dystopian films from BLADE RUNNER to CHILDREN OF MEN. Kassovitz, who is most familiar to audiences as the object of affection in AMELIE, also adapted the script from the Maurice G. Dantec novel BABYLON BABIES with Eric Besnard. In small roles, Depardieu and French favourite Charlotte Rampling (who plays a mysterious religious leader) provide substance and gravitas.
ReviewsEmpire Magazine - You may find this a guilty pleasure, LA Weekly - It's nice to see an action movie that takes Europe, not America, as its grounding point., Variety - Comparisons to THE FIFTH ELEMENT--another French-produced and -helmed blockbuster featuring a bankable Hollywood actor--are likely
ScreenwriterMathieu Kassovitz, Eric Besnard
AuthorMaurice G. Dantec
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleBabylon A.D.
Consumer AdviceContains infrequent strong language and moderate violence