...as futuristic visions go, Babylon A.D. actually gets a lot right...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2021

Defenders contest that Matthieu Kassovitz's director's cut is preferable. It certainly couldn't have a more incomprehensible ending. Silver lining? Vin Diesel remembered that movie where a sub cracks the ice and did it better a decade later.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 13, 2020

There are some high ideas to be found buried beneath all the rubble, but they're so obscured by the banal, hyperactive action scenes that they don't really register.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

Babylon A.D. is a plodding incoherent fiasco, though an oddly compelling one.

| Original Score: F | Jul 29, 2014

Despite all its noise and bluster, this big-budget blockbuster is actually a rather slight dystopian sci-fi thriller.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 29, 2014

Ultimately, Babylon A.D. is more of an advertisement for an extended and fixed cut, than an outright failure.

| Jun 10, 2013

Violent actioner is dull, dreary, and defective.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 16, 2010

A joyless mess of a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 1, 2009

There are moments here that are spectacular, and there are many more that are spectacular failures.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 29, 2009

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| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 20, 2009

With bland protagonists and power figures unpleasant enough for us to want them out of our sight more than we want them defeated, it doesn't do much to hold our interest.

Full Review | Original Score: 63/100 | Jan 12, 2009

Skip it aggressively.

Full Review | Nov 7, 2008

I unfortunately had a seat that faced the screen and I have two hours of my life that I will never get back.

| Nov 7, 2008

I call it (sneeringly, natch) the 'New Nihilism,' but, to be fair, it's really just the old, Franco-Prussian existential angst hole ratcheted up and dumbed down for our not so brave new world.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

This occasionally lavish, often clunky venture is consistently watchable if not terribly memorable or distinctive.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

As if the gruff dialogue isn't bad enough, the action scenes are merely adequate.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Strap yourself in for some pure violence and stupidity.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 10, 2008

Whatever happened to Mathieu Kassovitz, the French actor director whose amazing film La Haine made such an impact 13 years ago?

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Oct 10, 2008

With his face like a squashed doughnut, and physique like the tyres of a huge truck, Diesel just doesn't inhabit the same planet as Rampling or even Kassovitz himself.

| Oct 3, 2008

With a messy storyline and screenplay to boot, the film feels disjointed and lacking true punch.

| Oct 3, 2008