It's hard to judge Babylon A.D. when I know that director Mathieu Kassovitz has publicly disowned the movie, claiming that Twentieth Century Fox interfered with just about everything. It's quite easy to see why they interfered. In watching the movie, I could tell that Kassovitz had plans to make it an epic sci-fi film, though perhaps too much of it felt lifted from other such epics (e.g. Children of Men, Brazil, Pitch Black, and even The Fifth Element). But come the action sequences, and it's quite apparent that Fox wanted another Vin Diesel shoot-'em-up to peddle to the college boys. The result is an unholy mess with a incoherent story and uninspired action sequences, and I don't know if it's because Kassovitz wasn't up to the task, or whether his work was mutilated by the studio, or both.
This movie also features one of my pet peeves: If you're gonna cast Michelle Yeoh in a butt-kicking role, then for the love of gawd, let her do some impressive butt-kicking!
This movie also features one of my pet peeves: If you're gonna cast Michelle Yeoh in a butt-kicking role, then for the love of gawd, let her do some impressive butt-kicking!