Savior or sinner?

Cast: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh

Showing at: City Pride Satara Road, Fame Akurdi, Mangala

In Babylon AD Vin Diesel, the slowest-moving action hero in movies, travels over land and under water from somewhere in the former Soviet Union to New York City in the company of a nun Michelle Yeoh and a young woman named Aurora Meacute;lanie Thierry. Aurora is either some kind of biological weapon or some kind of messianic figure. Our judgments, in any case, may be superfluous, since the director, Mathieu Kassovitz, has already publicly described it as 8220;pure violence and stupidity8221;.

He did not mean that in a good way, and while I hate to contradict an artist8217;s assessment of his own work8212;Kassovitz blames 20th Century Fox for compromising his political and metaphysical vision8212;a purely violent and stupid film might have been kind of fun. This one, while it has some nice futuristic design touches including grubby East Bloc housing projects and a splendidly renovated Harlem brownstone, combines badly executed action sequences with mystic mumbo-jumbo that I suspect not even a two-disc Director8217;s Cut DVD could make comprehensible.

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