Babylon A.D. Review

Warning : Spoilers ahead - Babylon A.D. Movie Review!

Babylon A.D. had a decent trailer, with lots of guns, explosions and action scenes to wet your appetite for another standard Vin Diesel action movie.

It starts off promising enough... the movie seems to take place somewhere in the near future, with certain elements of the current days, and some futuristic elements in it as well. It gets straight to the point, establishing Vin Diesel's char "Toorop" as a mercenary with "balls and keeps his word", and he's got a job of smuggling/escorting 2 ladies to New York from Russia.

There's action and explosions aplenty indeed as they move from location to location across Russia, to Canada and towards the USA.

The story also establishes that there's something wrong with Aurora, the lady that Toorop is supposed to protect and escort.

In fact, the story keeps building up questions and new possibilities and new angles and new fractions until it comes to a boiling point... a so called "climax" where it joins up with what Toorop said in the beginning of the movie :

"Save the planet. What for? Life's simple. Kill or be killed. A survivors' code. My code. And it all sounds great until the day you find yourself confronted by a choice. A choice to make a difference or to walk away and save yourself. I learned something that day. Too bad it was the day I died."

UNFORTUNATELY... that's when the movie died as well.

It just died so suddenly that I seriously believed the producers looked at their budget, decided it had reached its limit and decided to pull the plug.

The movie just ENDED!

All those questions before were left hanging, there was a car chase just for the sake of it, and fast forward to the future, where Aurora seems to have died giving birth to children that nobody impregnated, and Toorop became a father and had 2 kids to play with. THE END!

It left everyone in the cinema in shock. I was dumbfounded! What happened to the bad guys? Did they just give up? What miracle? What? Why? Who? How? When? Which?

As a result of that, the movie went from a "promising" movie to a totally sucky one in the blink of an eye.

Definitely NOT recommended!

Geez Mr. Vin Diesel... after Chronicles of Riddick, and now this! He really needs to work on his movie choices.