It is the not-too-distant future. Thousands of satellites scan, observe and monitor our every move. Much of the planet is a war zone; the rest, a collection of wretched way stations, teeming megalopolises, and vast wastelands punctuated by areas left radioactive from nuclear meltdowns. It is a world made for hardened warriors, one of whom, a mercenary known only as Toorop, lives by a simple survivor’s code: kill or be killed. His latest assignment has him smuggling a young woman named Aurora from a convent in Kazakhstan to New York City. Toorop, his new young charge Aurora and Aurora’s guardian Sister Rebeka embark on a 6,000 mile journey that takes them from Eastern Europe, through a refugee camp in New Russia across the Bering Straight in a pilfered submarine, then through the frozen tundra of Alaska and Canada, and finally to New York. Facing obstacles at every turn, Toorop, the killer for hire, is tested like never before, in ways he could never have imagined--as he comes to understand that he is the custodian of the only hope for the future of mankind. For the first time in his life, Toorop has to make a choice: to make a difference or walk away and save himself. Too bad it came on the day he died.

After watching this movie I am pretty sure Vin Diesel should have stayed away from the big screen for a little bit longer that or found a better movie to make a comeback in after a disappearance for a few years. Vin Diesel will never be mistaken as a great actor but there for awhile he did seem like he could become the next Arnold or Sylvester fueling a new generation with silly over the top action films. While films like Fast and the Furious are not great masterpieces they were still fun and entertaining the same cannot be said about Babylon A.D. From beginning to end the movie is a complete and utter train wreck. The action is mediocre, the CGI bad, the acting even worse and mix in a very uninspired story with an ending that makes you feel like you wasted two hours of your life to get out of the theatre. If Diesel thought this might sling shot him back into the spotlight he was wrong as nobody wants to see a so so actor top begin with taking a paycheck in a horrible film,

The worst part of the film might just be the story which is horrible and ridiculous and almost and insult to an intelligent moviegoer. It rarely makes sense and was like the writers sat down and just watched some classic and modern sci-fi films and decided to see if the could splice them together. Take a little Children of Men here and a little Brazil there throw in some really bad CGI shots, some wooden acting and an inane story line and presto you have Babylon A.D. Its as if the writers and director didn't even care to make any type of real effort at producing a film of any quality and rather thought they could get by on CGI and a snazzy trailer. Then end the film with a whimper and one of the stupidest endings ever in film history and you might just have figured out how to piss off the entire movie going crowd.

There is no excuse for bad CGI nowadays, honestly if you can't hire a decent CGI team to do the majority of the graphics for your film then you probably shouldn't make the majority of your film CGI based. Films from the 1980's with puppetry looked better than Babylon A.D. most of the time. I am tired of computer-based graphics being used in lieu of a decent story and acting there is simply no excuse for this type of shoddy filmmaking.

The path to a prolonged career in Hollywood is usually talent or very good choices in what films one will star in. At first despite not having a lot of talent Diesel seemed to make very good career choices on films that seemed to fit his gruff persona but once stardom was found he decided to take any role in any film that offered him a paycheck and its led to such dreck like Babylon A.D. which isn't even worth a rental.

Grade: F