Their mistake was making this into a thriller. That is until I found out that the director openly bashed his own movie before opening night that the producers wouldn’t let him shoot the way he wanted and this adaptation of the book Babylon Babies was nothing more than “a bad episode of 24.”

I for one don’t see how anything felt at all like 24 but he got one thing right, it’s a movie that’s to be bashed.

The first half where all the mysteries surrounding the girl was kept the audience hooked to the movie. But once the mysteries started to get solved, that’s where it all went downhill. And it just felt like it was time to walk out of the cinema.

The worst part of the movie was the final one-third. It had nothing. The plot lost itself, there was no continuity with each scene as the pacing took giant steps forward, the action was weak and nonsensical, and how it ended made no sense at all.

Having Michelle Yeoh in an action movie is to let her kick ass. She had limited chances of doing those, especially in the final fight. Of late her career in Hollywood has taken a downward spiral. All her three movies were just plain bad. It’s time she be a bit more picky about selecting her script.

Vin Diesel, as the lead character Toorop, had problems saying his own name with a straight face. He looked lost in the movie most of the time. His feelings for the female character never transpired, so that one scene where it was supposed to be affection looked like lust.

While the Hollywood producers probably wanted to make this into an action movie and French director looking for Hollywood fame Mathieu Kossovitz wanted a proper drama-thriller, the movie ended up being caught in the middle, and it really showed.

And Gerard Depardieu looked unrecognisable by the way. What’s up with the makeup?

Rating: 3 / 10

(all images from imdb.com)