It’s twenty years in the future and the U.S.S.R. is in political and economic turmoil and the United States is automated and sterile. This is the setting of the movie, based on the Maurice G. Dantec novel Babylon Babies, Babylon A.D.
Babylon A.D. takes place several decades in the future and centers around the exiled American mercenary, Toorop (Vin Diesel – Chronicles of Riddick), who is hired to deliver a package to a religious group known as The Covenant. The package is a young girl Aurora (Melanie Thierry – Chrysalis) and is accompanied by Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and the ensuing adventure takes our group from the cold wastelands of Russia to the cold sterility of the future New York, fighting and evading groups that want Aurora alive, dead or her delivery ensured.
Special Features are :
Babylon Babies Featurette
Arctic Escape Featurette
Fit For The Screen Featurette
Hummers In Flight Featurette
Prequel To Babylon A.D.: Genesis Of Aurora Digital Graphic Novel
Babylon A.D Commercials
Deleted Scene: Hummer Sequence
Still Gallery
Exclusive to the Blu-Ray set :
BONUSVIEW: Scene Evolution
BONUSVIEW: Babylon A.D. Commercials
Enhanced For D-Box Motion Control Systems
1080p High Definition and Dolby Digital Audio
Both DVD and Blu-Ray formats come with a second disc that has a digital version of the movie for portable media players with Apple iTunes compatibility.
Babylon A.D. should have been a much better movie than it is. The action involved in the actual traveling, the fights, chases and explosions exquisitely executed and the acting is adequate at worst. It’s annoying that there are no subtitles for the Russian dialogue, even with the subtitle option on it only says “Speaks Russian”. You can figure out the conversations but it bothers me to not hear both sides. The largest flaw is taking a story filled with intrigue, deception, politics and futuristic genetic manipulation, and turned it into an action flick. Don’t get me wrong, this is still a good movie, I simply had higher expectations based on what I knew of the story.
Comicsonline gives Babylon A.D. 3 tattooed mercenaries out of 5.
