The script is based on a French novel by Maurice Georges Dantec, and on the basis of this mess I would really hate to read it. Though extremely derivative of everything from Bladerunner to Children Of Men, the film's style and pace keep it going for the first 45 minutes or so - that's when the plot kicks in. starts competently enough and devotes enough care to the creation of its future world to make us initially, if reluctantly, buy into it. And old Toorop, who has vowed never to get emotionally involved in a mission, begins to go soft on his two charges.īabylon A.D. However, a scientist in New York and the leader of a religious cult are vying to reach her first and take advantage of her potential. Without giving too much away, she has special abilities and may even offer new hope to mankind.
However, a remarkable number of people seem intent on stopping them, for it turns out that Aurora is no ordinary girl. Their aim is to to head north and cross to Canada via the Bering Strait, then slip over the border to the States. And with very good reason as it turns out, because as soon as they reach the next town they're punched, kicked, bombed and shot at. Aurora (Menanie Thierry) turns out to be an incandescently beautiful but intense and troubled young woman, who is terrified of the outside world, having been sheltered from it since birth. There he's met by a nun called Sister Rebecca (Michelle Yoah), who tells him she will be going with them. Having nothing on that weekend, Toorop agrees and pitches up outside the Mongolian monastery.
He wants him to escort a young woman called Aurora from a monastery in the depths of Mongolia to New York - no questions asked. They take him to Gorsky (Gerard Depardieu), a criminal boss who tells him he has a job for him. He's just settling down to a plate of fricasseed rabbit one night when his apartment door is blown in and he's surrounded by heavily armed strangers. He's American, but was forever expelled from the home of the brave after being put on a most-wanted-terrorists list, and now resides not very peacefully in Russia, whacking folk for money. stars that moving side of beef himself, Vin Diesel, as a gravel-voiced mercenary called Toorop. Set in an unspecified but not too distant future (my guess is around 2050), Babylon A.D. Why can't it be a new Eden with people gaily skipping nudie through the daisies for once? Not this time I'm afraid, for it's misery as usual in Babylon A.D., a glossy sci-fi thriller directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (the man who made La Haine and never got over it). Have you ever noticed how science-fiction films never ever paint a rosy picture of our future? It's always acid rain and gory pandemics and global chaos cunningly orchestrated by sinister multi-nationals (actually when I read that back it doesn't sound all that futuristic).
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