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Vin Diesel muscles his way from Eastern Europe to New York City in this post-apocalyptic thriller. The actor plays a mercenary who must take a package west in the midst of a crumbling world, but the package is more than it appears. French director Mathieu Kassovitz (LA HAINE, GOTHIKA) helms this film based on the novel BABYLON BABIES by Maurice G. Dantec.

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EAN5039036040037

eBay Product ID (ePID)69204806

Product Key Features

ActorCharlotte Rampling, Michelle Khan, Jerome Le Banner, Vin Diesel, Lambert Wilson, Gerard Depardieu, Melanie Thierry, Mark Strong

Film/TV TitleBabylon A.D.

DirectorMathieu Kassovitz

LanguageEnglish

Run Time90 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2008

FeaturesWidescreen, Bonus Digital Copy\'Babylon Babies' featurette\Behind the scene featurette\Deleted scene\Prequel to Babylon A.D.: 'The Genesis of Aurora' graphic novel\'Fit for the Screen' Featurette \'Hummers in Flightls' Featurette\Stills gallery

GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ReviewsEmpire Magazine - You may find this a guilty pleasure, LA Weekly - It's nice to see an action movie that takes Europe, not America, as its grounding point., Variety - Comparisons to THE FIFTH ELEMENT--another French-produced and -helmed blockbuster featuring a bankable Hollywood actor--are likely

Additional InformationIn sci-fi thriller BABYLON A.D., Vin Diesel's Toorop is an antihero who quotes the best of cinema's bad boys from films such as THE GODFATHER and SCARFACE. But all the tattooed muscleman really wants to do is leave poverty- and violence-ridden Russia and return to his family's home in upstate New York. However, he has been banned from his native America, so when a Russian mobster (a prosthetic-enhanced GΘrard Depardieu) offers him a job and a forged passport that will take him back home, he agrees, even though the mission seems close to suicide. He takes a strangely gifted orphan named Aurora (Melanie Thierry) from a Mongolian convent to Harlem, his only help being a nun--though it is a nun played by action star Michelle Yeoh. Thugs attack them on every leg of their journey, following them as they take car, train, sub, and snowmobile to ensure Aurora's safety. BABYLON A.D works best when it's revealing facets of its futuristic world, from the refugee-camp look of Russia to the high-tech gloss of a 22-million-people-strong New York City. Production designers Sonja Klaus and Paul Cross, as well as director Mathieu Kassovitz (GOTHIKA), deserve praise for creating settings that evoke memories of dystopian films from BLADE RUNNER to CHILDREN OF MEN. Kassovitz, who is most familiar to audiences as the object of affection in AMELIE, also adapted the script from the Maurice G. Dantec novel BABYLON BABIES with Eric Besnard. In small roles, Depardieu and French favourite Charlotte Rampling (who plays a mysterious religious leader) provide substance and gravitas.

ScreenwriterMathieu Kassovitz, Eric Besnard

AuthorMaurice G. Dantec

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleBabylon A.D.

Consumer AdviceContains infrequent strong language and moderate violence