Preview: Babylon A.D.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Vin Diesel in "Babylon A.D." out on Aug 29th
I had wondered what happened to Vin Diesel… and there he was on the big screen yesterday in the preview for Babylon A.D. It takes place in a post-apocolyptic Eastern Europe and is about Toorop [Diesel], a former veteran-turned mercenary who takes a high-risk job of transporting a ‘package’ from Russia to China. The package happens to be a girl with a secret. Babylon A.D. also stars Michelle Yeoh, so we can look forward to some great fight scenes I’m sure. And also newcomer to American film, Mélanie Thierry.
This movie looks like what XXX should have been [if you haven't seen it, consider yourself lucky... It was horrible] – darker, grittier… but it’s still not rated R, so hopefully the acting, writing, plot and pacing make up for the lack of other perks like gratuitous sex and violence [wink]. There’s definitely plenty of action, though.
At the helm is director Mathieu Kassovitz, the man behind the movie Munich, which was excellent, so I have high hopes for Babylon A.D. I know a lot of people don’t like Vin Diesel, but I like him. His choice of roles has been questionable for a while, so hopefully he can redeem himself. I am a big fan of the original Fast and the Furious [fast cars, sexy people... fine for what it is and Diesel was a great 'anti-hero'] and Pitch Black – a great sci-fi movie. I also enjoyed the sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick, even though it was a little hokey here and there, and the villain could have been so much better [Colm Feore, a great actor, but in this case he looked like an accountant, not a power monger that wanted to dominate the Universe to me]… but it did have Judi Dench, Thandie Newton and Karl Urban, which balanced things out for me. ;)
Okay, enough of my ‘babyling’… hee hee [sorry, couldn't resist!]… here’s the trailer: Babylon A.D. Official Site
Add’l Info: Release Date: Aug 29, 2008 • Runtime: 90 minutes • Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language and some sexuality • Photo credit: Guy Ferrandis ©Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation via allmoviephoto.com
