Babylon A.D. BD

[Lightning Steve]

Picked this up when it came out, hadn't see it in the theater. Wasn't to sure what to expect as it got really bad reviews. But I have to say I really liked it, have watched it twice now. I also have to admit I like Vin Diesel, well most of his movies anyway. I found it to be a very entertaining action flick and had a really good story.
Picture quality was very good, sound wasn't bad but don't expect your subs to get much of a work out.

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In sci-fi thriller BABYLON A.D., Vin Diesel's Toorop is an antihero who quotes the best of cinema's bad boys from films such as THE GODFATHER and SCARFACE. But all the tattooed muscleman really wants to do is leave poverty- and violence-ridden Russia and return to his family's home in upstate New York. However, he has been banned from his native America, so when a Russian mobster (a prosthetic-enhanced Gérard Depardieu) offers him a job and a forged passport that will take him back home, he agrees, even though the mission seems close to suicide. He takes a strangely gifted orphan named Aurora (Melanie Thierry) from a Mongolian convent to Harlem, his only help being a nun--though it is a nun played by action star Michelle Yeoh. Thugs attack them on every leg of their journey, following them as they take car, train, sub, and snowmobile to ensure Aurora's safety.

BABYLON A.D works best when it's revealing facets of its futuristic world, from the refugee-camp look of Russia to the high-tech gloss of a 22-million-people-strong New York City. Production designers Sonja Klaus and Paul Cross, as well as director Mathieu Kassovitz (GOTHIKA), deserve praise for creating settings that evoke memories of dystopian films from BLADE RUNNER to CHILDREN OF MEN. Kassovitz, who is most familiar to audiences as the object of affection in AMELIE, also adapted the script from the Maurice G. Dantec novel BABYLON BABIES with Eric Besnard. The book weighed in at over 500 pages, so there are times when it feels like something is missing in BABYLON A.D. with its brief 90-minute run time. In small roles, Depardieu and French favorite Charlotte Rampling (who plays a mysterious religious leader) provide substance and gravitas.

 

[zorandesign]

it is an interesting film overall.I like movies with Vin Diesel too, he has an action movie face and appeal.

 

[Tomorrow]

We just finished the movie. It got a 3-minus stars (out of five) score from the four watchers. The audio was atrocious...really quiet, poorly recorded dialogue, super loud music track, ambient sounds somewhere in between.

We like Vin D. He was his usual good kick-butt self. Action scenes were good, but not spectacular. This one needed a little extra butter on the popcorn...but was a passable Friday night flick.

 

[Lightning Steve]

The audio was atrocious...really quiet, poorly recorded dialogue, super loud music track, ambient sounds somewhere in between.

That's kinda odd, other than not much in the way of LFE, the sound for me was pretty good, music wasn't over powering and dialogue was just fine. Wonder why such a differance?

 

[Tomorrow]

That's kinda odd, other than not much in the way of LFE, the sound for me was pretty good, music wasn't over powering and dialogue was just fine. Wonder why such a differance?

What format did you use? I had it on BD DTS. I noted nearly 15 dB shifts from the music (like the rap song at the beginning) to general dialogue.

Weird.

 

[Lightning Steve]

What format did you use? I had it on BD DTS. I noted nearly 15 dB shifts from the music (like the rap song at the beginning) to general dialogue.

Weird.

Okay, I know what you mean now, the begging song is louder but I think it's suppose to be like that, opening song sorta thing, rest seemed okay to me?