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.

Blu-ray Disc Features:

Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
5.1 DTS HD Master Audio - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin - Optional

Disc 1: BABYLON A.D. Unrated Version
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes - 1. "BABYLON BABIES - How Author Maurice G. Dantec's Novel Went from Page to Screen"
2. "ARCTIC ESCAPE - An Inside Look at the Snow Mobile Chase"
3. "FIT FOR THE SCREEN - The Martial Arts and Stunts of the Film"
4. "FLIGHT OF THE HUMMERS - The Humvee Chase is Dissected"
5. "GENESIS OF AURORA - Graphic Novel Prequel to BABYLON A.D."
Trailers - 1. BEHIND ENEMY LINES: COLOMBIA, VALKYRIE, MAX PAYNE, MIRRORS UNRATED, THE ROCKER, JOY RIDE 2, THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE, STARGATE CONTINUUM, THE HAPPENING
Interactive Features:
Additional Interactive Features - "Scenes Evolution' in BonusVIEW Mode (19)
Text/Photo Galleries:
Gallery - Stills Gallery (19)

Disc 2: Digital Copy

Distributor Notes: In the darkly futuristic world of Babylon A.D., the rules are simple: kill or be killed. Hard-hitting action superstar Vin Diesel (The Fast and the Furious, The Chronicles of Riddick), stars as Toorop, a ruthless mercenary hired to smuggle a mysterious young woman from the post-apocalyptic confines of Eastern Europe to the glittering megalopolis of New York City. Hunted at every turn, Toorop spirits his charge across a nightmarish wasteland only to uncover a shocking secret that will bring the entire world to its knees. Eye-popping action and mind-blowing science fiction clash head-on in this hard-edged thriller, where the only rule is survival.

Source: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Vin Diesel: American actor
Michelle Khan: Hong Kong Action Star
Melanie Thierry: Actress
Lambert Wilson: French Actor
Mark Strong: Actor
Jerome Le Banner: Actor
Charlotte Rampling: British Actress
Gérard Depardieu: French Actor/Director

Mathieu Kassovitz: Director/"Cafe Au Lait"

Ilan Goldman: Producer

Mathieu Kassovitz: Director/"Cafe Au Lait"
Eric Besnard: Screenwriter

Atli Orvarsson: Composer, STUART LITTLE 3: CALL OF THE WILD (2005)

Benjamin Weill: Editor