Exclusive interviews: Duncan Jones (Director of Moon) - Andrew Barker (Director of Straw Man) - Tony Grisoni (Screen Writer of Red Riding Trilogy, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) - Michael Marshall Smith (author of Spares, Only Forward, The Straw Men etc) - Alejandro Adams (Director of Canary) - Ryan Denmark (Director of Romeo & Juliet vs The Living Dead) - Neal Asher (author of the Cormac series, The Skinner etc) - Marc Robert & Will Stotler (Able) - Kenny Carpenter (Director of Salvaging Outer Space)

Press Conference - Public Enemies - Johnny Depp, Michael Mann, Marion Cotillard

NEWS - REVIEWS - TRAILERS - POSTERS - INTERVIEWS - FORUM - CONTACT


FEATURED REVIEWS - Public Enemies - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Moon - The Hurt Locker

LFF is on Facebook - Twitter - Friend Feed

Thursday, 10 July 2008

Babylon A.D. - Vin Diesel's new one


Yep, Vin is back in Sci-Fi mode and above is the international poster for his new movie, Babylon A.D. The poster tells you absolutely nothing about the movie apart from the fact Vin and the French looking woman look like giants compared to the bit of cityscape behind them!
A veteran-turned-mercenary (Vin Diesel) agrees to escort a woman from Russia to
Germany, not realizing that she's the host for an organism that a cult wants to
harvest into a genetically-modified Messiah. Based on the novel by Maurice G.
Dantec.
So no giants mentioned there. Damn misleading film posters and their false promises of giants. When was the last time we had a giant in a movie (apart from most Terry Gilliam movies - even when they don't have a giant they always feel as if there is one just off camera). The plot sounds a bit like Children of Men with a bit of The Fifth Element thrown in.

Apart from Vin, the film stars Gerard Depardieu, Michelle Yeoh, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong, Radek Bruna, Melanie Thierry and Lambert Wilson. Some good actors and action stars in there so it may be worth watching.

Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (who starred in Munich) for 20th Century Fox from a script by Eric Besnard.

0 comments: