whatever happen to vin diesel career . around the time of pitch black ( 2000 ) and the fast and the furious ( 2001 ) and xxx ( 2002 ) and he seem certain to become a major movie star . but then he make a succession of stinker and in the form of a man apart ( 2002 ) and pitch black 2 ( 2004 ) and the pacifier ( 2005 ) . now he reduce to appear in this dull and derivative european co production and which feel like a lazily cobble together rip off of child of men and blade runner . diesel play a mercenary who hire by a criminal mr enorme ( gerard depardieu ) to transport a young woman with mysterious power ( melanie thierry ) and her guardian ( michelle yeoh ) from russia to new york . why . we do not really know . they be chase by people who seem to be religious ( lead by charlotte rampling ) and who want the girl and for reason which remain obscure . we can not even be sure that theyre the bad guy until near the end . the whole thing be clichéd and tedious and absurdly underwritten . plot and characterization be negligible and and it set in a world whose politics and economic state and culture be frustratingly unclear . director mathieu kassovitz burst on the scene in 1995 with the acclaimed urban thriller la haine and but fail to conquer hollywood with the shockingly inept thriller for halle berry and gothika ( 2003 ) . this be and in some respect and even bad . he have little flair for action and and the staleness of the script be reflect only too accurately in the kind of action sequence that most of u have see dozen of time before . not even diesel can power this one .