REVIEWS NEWS INTERVIEWS OTHER

(1 - 24) of 24 OFCS Rating: 8% Rotten Page   1   "The future looks a lot like the past (or at least like past movies) in this lazily derivative SF action flick."   Channel 4 Film   Anton Bitel 1/5 "this is one time when audiences will wish the world ended sooner. A lot sooner."   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron C- "Babylon A.D. is adrift, lost somewhere between the demands of a profit-manic studio and a passionate, unleashed director. There's no way great cinema could emerge from that combustible mix."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf C- "Although based on Maurice George Dantec's sci-fi novel "Babylon Babies" "Babylon A.D." comes across as an undercooked retooling of Alfonso Cuaron's much better 2006 film "Children of Men." Even the most forgiving sci-fi fans will have a hard time making s"   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 2/10 "The fact that Aurora incarnates some extreme other possibility -- be it "light" or darkness, miraculous birth or genocide -- makes her one more "mother of the future.""   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/4 "Whether the fault lies with a script crying out for further drafts before shooting, or a cheap studio shutting off its director's creativity in order to save a buck, the dubious result remains the same. Babylon A.D. is a mess."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1/5 "I almost feel bad for Vin Diesel, a genuinely nice guy who has reached the end of his rope as far as his career is concerned."   Film Threat   Felix Vasquez Jr. 1.5/4 "A dreadful tedious science fiction mess with aspirations that are destroyed in a haze of terrible dialogue and an impossibly hazy directorial style..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. D- "So bad it will make you nostalgic for The Pacifier."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1.5/4 "This is a case of a potentially epic tale being pruned and diced to the point where its underlying ideas are reduced to trite clichés."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "The sort of thing that would have starred Rutger Hauer in his direct-to-video heyday . . ."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 1/5 "Babylon A.D. is a bad, bloated big-budget science fiction film that doesn't even have the distinction of being memorably horrible or fascinatingly inept; it's simply a lump of product, a failure too expensive to simply discard."   Cinematical   James Rocchi C+ "As a notch in Vin Diesel's action film belt, it serves its purpose. But come Halloween, I doubt anyone is even going to remember this film existed."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 2.5/4 "For all its generic qualities, Babylon A.D. is well acted, briskly paced and consistently clear: Like Neil Marshall's Doomsday, it's bare-bones genre entertainment, no better or worse than it ought to be."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "I found myself sorta not hating it, and sorta fascinated by it, for about 45 minutes or so. Alas that the movie's about 90 minutes long."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson .5/4 "Seems simply like the aftermath of an artistic apocalypse."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "Por piores que sejam os problemas presentes nos dois primeiros atos do filme, estes nem se comparam aos pavorosos 20 minutos finais, que parecem ter sido montados de qualquer maneira para concluir a narrativa rapidamente."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2/5 "The final third is a stretch of moviemaking so utterly lacking in coherence and competence that Ed Wood himself would have been embarrassed to have had his good name attached to the results."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "So overwrought and over-serious that it never really engages us, and all of the laughs feel unintentional."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 0/5 "Who recut it, Stevie Wonder?"   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "While Babylon A.D. isn't the worst big-budget sci-fi film ever made, it comes near enough to merit avoiding at all costs."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux 2/5 "Did we actually NEED a brain-dead action version of Children of Men? I say no."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 1/10 "Undeniably awful."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 6/10 "There's a lot to not love about the film...[but it's] one of the most thoughtfully designed post-apocalypse futures put on film in years."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 24) of 24 OFCS Rating: 8% Rotten Page   1