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

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

It's as though the film's final act was accidentally deleted on the digital editing console.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 3, 2008

Even if it never finds an audience outside L.A., someone ought to write a book called When Dull Films Happen To Clever Production Designers.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 2, 2008

An abysmal French thriller in which everyone -- Diesel included -- speaks as if they've learned their lines phonetically.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 2, 2008

[A] futuristic mess of biblical proportions.

Full Review | Sep 2, 2008

Babylon's plot is a lumpy mixture of The Fifth Element and Children of Men, while its dystopian future references Blade Runner, Dune, and The Matrix.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 2, 2008

A must-see only for fans of snowmobile chases.

| Sep 2, 2008

When this Vin Diesel vehicle isn't pointlessly frenzied, it's narratively inert, wasting some decent production design, and a French-flavored cast primed for fun.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 2, 2008

'I'm very unhappy with the film,' the director recently told an online magazine. Join the club.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 2, 2008

Babylon feels like an almost random pastiche of good and bad. There may be a deadly virus, or genetic engineering, or a virgin birth, or some combination of all, it's not clear.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2008

The only explicable thing about Babylon A.D. is that it was not screened in advance for critics.

Full Review | Sep 2, 2008

Seems simply like the aftermath of an artistic apocalypse.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 29, 2008

If the eventual director's cut DVD proves this movie to be a masterpiece, then I'll be first in line to buy it. Given what's currently unfolding on the big screen, however, it's no wonder the director is so eager to disown it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2008

French director Mathieu Kassovitz was once touted as the next Scorsese, thanks to his gritty debut, La Haine. Alas, this action-adventure epic suggests he has settled for being a Hollywood wannabe.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2008

A sci-fi actioner that sees bald hero Vin Diesel back stomping around the future like a small, gun-toting penis.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Kassovitz creates a grungy dystopia, but the action has the crazed, over-edited ruckus of a death-metal video and the top "international" cast is notable only for being miscast.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Fairly terrible techno-punk action flick.

| Aug 29, 2008

You don't need to have a grudging affection for Vin Diesel to appreciate this dunderheaded comic-book adventure - although, obviously, it helps.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2008