SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Prismark10 After Babylon AD, star Vin Diesel quickly returned to the Fast and Furious franchise. Wise move.Babylon AD is a short film, edited to shreds by the film production company and the director disowned his own movie due to the studio interference. You can tell because it has a derivative and boring look, bad dialogue, uninspired action scenes and I am not sure what really happened at the end, the film just finished.The film is set in a dystopian near future Diesel plays Toorop a tough mercenary hired to bring a mysterious genetically modified young woman, Aurora from Russia to America. Aurora has been raised in a convent and knows little about the world around her. Michelle Yeoh plays a kung fu nun sidekick who is Aurora's guardian.As Toorop is wanted in America he himself has to be smuggled inside while unsavoury people are after them and Aurora displays some special powers. Waiting for Aurora in New York is a high priestess who plans to use her special abilities to develop a new religion.There is an interesting and diverse cast that includes Gerard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling and Mark Strong. The plot has shades of The Transporter and Children of Men but I would just watch The Fifth Element as it is more fun.

Basil Basilescu I sometimes don't get it on how the world still goes 'round. Usually I come to this website, look at how many points a movie scored and then watch it. This time it was the opposite. Had a movie spree weekend and wanted to see all of the unseen up to date, so I started searching. Found this title, saw the trailer, got some microwave popcorn and pressed play. I got the idea from the start, some parts were predictable, some others were not, but with the 5+ score it got I was absolutely in shock and ran to the motherland of movie websites, signed up and reviewed this picture in motion. I am terrified on how many people just don't appreciate a good movie. It's 2008 and this is a futuristic image. We didn't get to the moon and you should know that by now. Moving fast forward, if you like Vin Diesel, watch the movie. If you feel that he could have done better, I agree even more. However, rating this with lower than 7/10 wouldn't be fair. If you don't like it I suggest making a movie of your own, better ! Fact is fact, religion has too many benefits and is going towards a dark age of bad ideas.Go figure why there were black and white babies, you coca-cola advertisement lovers, it's for the mind-washing machine public and those 2 billion new believers that ugly lady in the movie was talking about. Since this is my first review I don't expect you all to like it, but after all that wasn't the purpose of this website after all. Enjoy !

Spikeopath Babylon A.D. is directed by Mathieu Kassovitz who also co-adapts to the screen with Éric Besnard & Joseph Simas from the Maurice G. Dantec novel, Babylon Babies. It stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gérard Depardieu and Charlotte Rampling. Music is by Atli Örvarsson and photography by Thierry Arbogast.It's the future and mercenary Toorop (Diesel) agrees to do a high risk job of escorting an other worldly woman from Russia to America. Easier said than done since many others would like to obtain her as well.It's now on record as being a film that suffered many problems during production, be it the weather, studio interference (film has more producers than there were people in it!) or crumbling sets, it was a tough old shoot and director Kassovitz has disowned the film. Available now in a longer unrated/directors cut, the film is still a mess of a movie, which is a shame because the story is a hot one and the look and feel is suitably dystopian.On a basic level it achieves some expectations, Diesel is perfectly brooding and macho, we want him to punch, kick and shoot his way thru the movie, and he does. Yeoh, it would be a waste not to let her kick ass, and so she does, while a hankering for some futuristic gadgets and sci-fi babble (here in the guise of genetic manipulation) is well and truly catered for. But it's constructed badly as the film is choppy in pace and the scatter gun editing is simply awful. Quick fire camera work can work in action movies, but here it renders the action unwatchable, and is more likely to induce travel sickness than any sort of exhilaration. As for the dialogue, one is more likely to believe that it was written by a pre-teen than a full grown adult.Diesel's bruising efforts and the Cyberpunk design aside, it's a film that's hard to recommend with any sort of confidence. 4/10

manjodude Aaah! What do I make of it? Thanks to the discussion board here in IMDb, I could get some clarity on many confusing scenes in the movie.Talking about it, I find Vin Diesel to be a cool action star, and Michelle Yeoh to be a soothing actor besides being kicka** in martial arts. I think both should pair up again. Melanie Thierry looks stunning & emotes well too.The action & the story is also appealing. The action in many scenes looked implausible, e.g. Vin Diesel & Michelle Yeoh escaping unscathed despite a hail of bullets from all directions by 20 odd gunmen. Could have been more realistic.At the end of it all, I felt the movie finished too soon than expected, and left few questions unanswered.Verdict: A faaar-fetched plot that doesn't really connect with the audience.