Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The "package" is a mysterious young woman with a secret.
I seem to be a lone voice here with this film. When Babylon A.D. was released it was very hard to find a review that gave it over two stars, but when I loaded the DVD fully expecting a car-crash of a movie I was pleasantly surprised, relieved and impressed. In this futuristic action thriller (that has an unmistakable resemblance of Children of Men) Vin Diesel plays Toorop, a mercenary with a growling voice (but what else can we get from the gravel-voiced Diesel) and a "get the job done" attitude. His job in this case is delivering a young women and her accompanying nun from Mongolia to America without getting killed. Toorop twigs this young woman is out of the ordinary when she anticipates a bomb attack when they are traveling. Her further abnormal talents range from operating submarine machinery she's never seen before to vaguely muttering things like "We will all die" in an eerie way. These makes Toorop uncomfortable. As a mercenary/delivery guy, he isn't used to his packages predicting the future. The whole film is very impressive, and towards the end features a brittle but good appearance from Charlotte Rampling. It isn't without flaws, but Diesel can carry a movie effortlessly, and with an exciting story such as this one his talents are never wasted.
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High octane, sci-fi action thriller set in a not-too-distant, dystopian future. Vin Diesel stars as Toorop, a mercenary who accepts the risky mission of escorting a young woman named Aurora (Melanie Thierry) from Central Asia to New York. Under the impression that this is a job like any other, Toorop is shocked to discover that his charge is pregnant. Not only that - the twins Aurora is carrying have the potential to become the next Messiahs, and Toorop's bosses are not the only ones showing an interest...
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