Babylon A.D
Dave Coombs | June 27, 2008
Vin Diesel is back in Mathieu Kassovitz big budget sci-fi action film Babylon A.D.
Well, call me Mr. Hypocrite - I’m unfeasible excited by this film despite the novel the film was based on, the director, and the writer being Frenchmen. In the film adaptation Vin plays Toorop, a special forces veteran who takes a lucrative one-off job of escorting a woman named Aurora from Russia to China. She’s carrying a genetically modified fetus which is the focus of intense interest by several nefarious parties.
In theory the film doesn’t sound exactly A-grade, however the novel the film is based on “Babylon Babies” is quite good, the director has done some beautiful work in the past, and the casting looks good. The film also looks really sexy as evidenced by the trailers.
There are currently two cuts planned, one for the European market and one for the American. The Euro version is slated to weigh in at roughly 2 hours, 40 minutes - expect the American version to be roughly half that thanks to the distributor Fox. They thought it was just too long.
I’ll be lining up for this one - it’ll be worth seeing on the big screen.
Wow wow wow!
Justin Gibson | June 30, 2008Wow wow wow!
I really hope this lives up to the promise! With the exception of Pitch Black, I think Diesel has been wasted as a leading man, and this kind of scifi setting has needed further exploration since Blade Runner.
Looking forward to it!
Me too. But possibly because I do have a
Wan Chin | July 1, 2008Me too. But possibly because I do have a crush on the director though. But apart from that, the gravelly voiced Diesel has been MIA from good films lately and this looks like it might buck the recent Diesel trend..
The word is there's been quite the investment in this;
FixedR6 | July 1, 2008The word is there’s been quite the investment in this; it’s about time for a good science fiction epic and no, Indy 4 doesn’t count.