‘Babylon A.D’ directed by Mathieu Kassovitz has this excellent low profile Sci-fi flick with ambition entwined with chaos. Being the setting of a near futurist dystopia, the film is about a mercenary named Toorop (played by Vincent Diesel) who accepts a contract to bring a woman called Aurora out of a convent in Central Asia to New York. Despite the fact that the show is a drama emphasizing Aurora’s role in a cult, which is trying to create a new genetically modified Messiah the series hints at such themes as survival, faith and the effects of genetically modified foods.
Boldly offering a great concept, at some moment, it can turn into an excessive number of oafish narration, for instance, such as appearing of pregnancy of Aurora. Even though Diesel is a well-known actor, he adds emotion to the character of Toorop and his characters relationship with Aurora but lacks enough depth in some of the film characters. The sceneries chosen by Kassovitz throughout the film do work as the director is shown to be capable of portraying a slightly decaying environment; but the over all mood and the action sequences do not match up with the selected sceneries of the film.
At this point alone the score and the cinematography contribute to that oppressed feeling of the film though the editing presents a very disjointed story. Thus, it will not be a mistake to consider the film “Babylon A.D.” having stylistically recognizable and rather stunning look while having numerous issues, and trying to raise fundamental and severe questions like the greed, and the issue of purpose of one person in the contemporary conflicts. But it has the picture of forcing the viewers to accept some facets of evil in people and swallow it with some virtues like rising from the dust.
