my first reaction to babylon a. d. be that it not nearly as bad a it own director and matthieu kassovitz and have be claim it be and although that reaction come to me before i get to the end of the movie . the movie have a cool set up and a few good action sequence and although they suffer from that all too modern symptom of have be put together by editor who must have be on some kind of amphetamine . like so many other recent action film ( death race and for example ) and the fight scene and chase scene and whatnot be cut together so fast that they fly by with dizzy speed and and you move on with the rest of the movie with only a vague impression of what just happen . vin diesel star a toorop and a hardened loner of a mercenary whose late mission be to escort a mysterious young woman from a convent in russia to america ( where he be list a a terrorist ) and although like so much of the rest of the movie and we never learn why . michelle yeoh come across a a bizarre casting decision for a bizarre character . she play sister rebekah and aurora guardian . this woman i just do not get . she chinese and play a kung fu fight nun in russia . she and toorop have an immediate power struggle and and then during the mission aurora exhibit more and more strange power and ability . she can feel other people pain and she can operate old submarine and and can predict the future . the rest of the movie be basically toorop mission to get her to new york alive and avoid the mysterious figure pursue her for their own agenda and and figure out what wrong with her along the way . the movie move along from one on location set piece to the next and with action scene and fight pop up out of nowhere and then wrap up nicely a our hero rush off screen to the next set . but i would argue that at least most of the action be fun along the way . unfortunately and i happen to have learn before watch the movie that a 160 minute version would be release in europe and compare to the 90 minute version i just saw and and let me tell you and you can really feel the blank spot . there be and for example and a major and major plot development reveal in the third act of the movie that be so bizarre that it almost like someone slip in a page from a completely different movie . it come from nowhere and go nowhere and and add nothing to the movie except provide a spot to slide in the end and which leave you with the feeling that the writer be hit by a truck or they run out of money or just lose interest . the end be so sudden and so witless that the movie immediately transform in my mind into an endless maze of loose end and confusion . there be a brief scene in the movie where sister rebekah explain hers and aurora history to toorop and but it doesn not explain anything and doesn not really matter anyway and because the story be so clearly just a backdrop to the futuristic landscape and the cookie cutter fight scene and many of which be hilarious in their badness . there be one scene and for example and where the trio outrun not only a couple of what look like futuristic stealth bomber and but also their missile and and they do it on snowmobile . i do not think we ever learn the exact time period and but the futuristic element of the film be badly incoherent . new york city be jam pack with neon advertisement and fold out road map be like google map on paper and touch sensitive and and taxi have scroll message board on their side and but coke zero be still around and advertise on passenger jet and the bad guy drive vintage and mint condition 2008 range rover . they must really like classic car . i have to say that babylon a. d. leave me with the feeling that it could have and should have be so much good than it be and and i be guess that be the money hungry hand of the studio that sweep away all of the good part of the movie . i be hop that when babylon dvd come along it will include the uncut and 160 minute version that the european saw and along with an explanation of why it be so badly butcher before release to american audience . at any rate and any director cut be sure to be a different movie entirely . i recommend wait for it .