Monday, September 8, 2008

Babylon A.D.



I went for a movie on Saturday afternoon with my friend at Pavilion. Movie title is called Babylon A.D. The plot is about the actor takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America. Heard some bad comments from my friends about this movie before I watch. But anyway, yes, this movie is bad, and what's worse, I went in with low expectations. I wanted to like this movie, really I did. Sadly, it went the other way.

The whole movie is like a mess. There are scenes in which you can tell the direction has no heart and the characters are just boring and flat. The acting is mostly weak. Vin Diesel still tries his best to act, but to no avail as the film keeps sinking to new depths. Vin Diesel and Michelle Yeoh seem to lost in this cinematic wreck. If you go in expecting the next academy award winner, you will completely despise it. I don't know whether they are setting up for a sequel or what but the ending was laughable or the best to describe is “No proper ending”, the ending is just like chopped off suddenly and I really don’t understand what’s the message the movie try to deliver.

The movie is about an hour and a half and I felt like two hours show. That, ladies and gentlemen, is reason enough to evade this movie unless you are excessively bored and have no entertainment alternatives.

8 comments:

[SK] said...

i totally agree with you about the movie.. was in pavilion on saturday bor, didn't see you geh?? hehe ;)

Tsubasa a.k.a 滑翔翼 said...

我对最近的英文电影都没啥信心。上星期六陪老姐去看了"钱不够用",她由开场笑到结束...我反而找不到笑点,但有几幕让我一直流泪啦...(那个黎明的演技有进步...)

还有,最近的《赤壁》仍然让我记忆犹新...

下一部期待的是歌舞剧,《Mamma Mia!》。如果有时间,这个月18日去看看吧。

Danny said...

ha...that movie never in my list..cos not a action/sci-fic fans. ;)

Pete said...

Thks for the review. Have not watch it yet. I think I will watch other movies. LOL

ian-ization said...

Interesting movies. It's a must watch for a movie goers. haha..

Legolas said...

Hmmm. Really that bad eh?

Roses said...

lucky for me, i told my dad to skip this movie when he wanted to bring me out last weekend..
it sounds really ew-ishh to consider that u have low expectation and it still turned out that bad

Chris said...

SK: Oh, i was there around 1pm something.

滑翔翼: 钱不够用2,我也想看。

Danny: Oh, cos nothing much movies can c, so that;s y choose this one lor.

Jackson: Yeah, i also dun understand the ending part. ???

Pete: Haha, U welcome. Any nice movie can introduce?

Ian-ization: Hah? u feel it nice ar?

Legolas: For me, yes lor.

Roses: Yeah, bit turn off for me.