A new era of life and death - a bad film that rapes the optic nerve

Murray 2022-03-22 09:01:52

It was a movie I was looking forward to very much, mainly because there are not many good movies recently, plus "Undercurrent" director Matthew Cassowitz, and "Extreme Agent 1" Vin Diesel and Michelle Yeoh co-star. But it made me once again fully realize the truth that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. The whole film has been cut a lot, only less than 1 hour and 20 minutes. The complex is complicated and the dialogue is messy. The only thing worth affirming is Vin Diesel's muscles, but such a figure can be said to be a catch in Hollywood. A lot.
Of course, this film is not useless. There are still a few wonderful fighting scenes in the first half, especially the snow chase. It is very enjoyable to watch with the background music. However, there was a serious deviation in the later complex. I don’t know if the version shown in the movie theater had too many deletions. Anyway, I didn’t understand the latter, especially when the heroine was about to give birth and said that she would rely on Trop to take care of the twins in the future. It was inexplicable, because there was no mention of why she died before. And the final fight scene is really disappointing, it's two Land Rovers chasing two Hummers, the last Hummer is killed, and then another Hummer kills the two Land Rovers, which is neither exciting nor pushing the whole scene. To the climax, the audience has a sense of an abrupt stop.
In short, this movie is not recommended, it is a relatively poor Hollywood movie in recent years.

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Babylon A.D. quotes

  • High Priestess: Mr. Gorsky, when I kill, I kill for good.

    Gorsky: Are you threatening me?

    High Priestess: Bless your soul.

    Gorsky: You'd need a nuke to kill me!

    [lights flash warning of incoming missile]

    Gorsky: Bitch.

    [missile explodes]

  • Gorsky: [about his destroyed apartment] You are a hard man to find, Toorop.

    Toorop: I'm not hiding. You could have knocked.