Babylon A.D.. might not be awful? ..some video online..
I’ve mentioned ‘Babylon A.D’ before, and the fact that I was worried about the quality of it. Mathieu Kassovitz is 50/50 as a director in anyone’s book. He broke in as a director with the fantastic ‘La Haine’… then came ‘Crimson Rivers’ which was a decent thriller, but for his US debut dropped the stinker that was ‘Gothika’. I’m not sure how much you could blame him for how that film turned out as it reeked of a Halle Berry vanity piece… but regardless it made me wary that he might have lost his directorial skill as soon as he left his home country (we call this ‘The John Woo effect)
Anyways.. so Kassovitz has been working on ‘Babylon AD’ a futuristic action thriller starring Vin Diesel that seems to have been filming forever (they’re still going according to a fan myspace page… currently shooting on set in Prague), I chuckled before at the plot synopsis.. and i’ll do it again..
“Combat veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop (Diesel) takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.”
heh. yeahhpp.. still funny.
So to the point of this article, some video has cropped up via a Vin Diesel Fansite that was supposedly shown to audiences in Cannes and it doesn’t look terrible. I’m still reserving judgement but i’m happier after watching the footage than I was before I’d seen it… finger crossed it’s more ‘Children of Men’ than ‘Robocop 3′
Check it out on iKlipz here
I’m sure it’s not going to be winning any Oscars but I’m expecting a little something good. As long as it meets “Pitch Black” standards, all will be good.
Well the music was cool, but so far nothing Vin Diesel has yet to make anything that could live up to Pitch Black. Looks like another XXX to me.
Between La Haine and Crimsom Rivers, there is the movie Assassin(s) which was quite good despite bad reviews.
(link : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118644/)
Kassovitz is also a very good actor. His best performance might be the movie “Un héros très discret”
sounds kind of like:
“Gibson Rickenbacker is a hired fighter living in a plague-ravaged apocalyptic America where a plague has infested most of the United States and the rest of the world. In New York City, Gibson encounters a woman named Pearl Prophet. Pearl reveals to Gibson that she is a cyborg who is carrying vital-information for a group of scientists in Atlanta who are working on a cure to the plague and Pearl hires Gibson to escort her back to Atlanta.” - Cyborg (1989)
and that’s the quality i’m expecting as well. Cyborg is fun trash to catch on cable but it would be awesome if they surprise me with a better movie.
I like Vin Diesel movies… but sometimes the crew need to push more of their creativity…