Babylon A.D.
Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz5.57%26%5.7
Veteran-turned-mercenary Toorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.
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Babylon A.D. Ratings & Reviews
- ElliJanuary 5, 2025Story was kind of confusing and didn't really feel like it knew where to go. I usually really like Diesel movies but this one wasn't one of them.
- Callum7d ago⭐⭐⭐½ – Babylon A.D. – Grit, gunfire, and a plot that eats itself. It’s been a while since I last watched this — maybe eighteen months — but the opening still sticks. Brutal, grounded, and confidently bleak. For a moment, it feels like it knows exactly what it wants to be: a hard-edged, near-future slog through a world that’s already lost its soul. Then the story keeps going. What starts as grimy sci-fi slowly drifts into outright absurdity, piling ideas on ideas until the tone collapses under its own weight. You can almost feel the film fighting itself — part street-level dystopia, part grand metaphysical nonsense — and never quite deciding which one deserves to win. The result is messy, uneven, and undeniably compromised. I’ve heard it called a poor man’s Children of Men. I can’t really judge that comparison firsthand, so I’ll take it with a grain of salt, but I can see where the sentiment comes from. Babylon A.D. wants to say something about faith, control, and the future of humanity — it just doesn’t have the discipline to land those ideas cleanly. And yet… I still kind of like it. Maybe it’s the atmosphere. Maybe it’s Vin Diesel dialling things down into a weary, functional performance. Or maybe it’s Mark Strong, who reliably elevates anything he’s in just by showing up and taking the material seriously. Whatever the reason, this film earned a few bonus points in my head despite its flaws. It’s not good-good. But it’s interesting-bad in a way that sticks longer than it probably should. 🥃 A cheap whisky in a scratched glass — rough, warming, and better than you expect once you’ve committed to it.
- VandytDecember 27, 2025An absolutely brutal opening, undermined by a story that, as it goes on, becomes completely absurd
- Daniel GustavssonJanuary 5, 2025The movie feels very low budget throughout, and that really works against it. The story is nonsensical too and seems to have been through many revisions. A bad movie. Avoid.
Babylon A.D. Trivia
Babylon A.D. was released on August 20, 2008.
Babylon A.D. was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.
Babylon A.D. has a runtime of 1 hr 41 min.
Babylon A.D. was produced by Alain Goldman, Benoît Jaubert.
The key characters in Babylon A.D. are Toorop (Vin Diesel), Aurora (Mélanie Thierry), Dr. Arthur Darquandier (Lambert Wilson).
Babylon A.D. is rated PG-13.
Babylon A.D. is a Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure film.
Babylon A.D. has an audience rating of 2.6 out of 10.