Babylon A.D. is a 2008 French American science fiction action film based on the novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges Dantec. The film was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and stars Vin Diesel, Mélanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh and Lambert Wilson. It was released on August 29, 2008 in the United States.
In the year 2059, an American mercenary named Toorop (Vin Diesel) is living in New Serbia, Eastern Europe. Branded a terrorist, he is forbidden from returning to the United States. One day, he is offered a courier contract by a Russian mobster, Gorsky (Gerard Depardieu). Toorop accepts in return for a chance to return to the United States, as he will be given an unfakeable U.N. passport (that must be injected subdermally) and half a million dollars. Gorsky instructs him to bring a young woman, an orphan known only as Aurora (Mélanie Thierry), to New York City. He is provided with weapons, maps, and money to secure passage.
Toorop travels by a reinforced car on an industrial lifting electromagnet hoisted by an Mil Mi-24 gunship. The helicopter drops the car off near a thousand-year old convent in Kyrgyzstan, now occupied by a Christian sect known as the Noelites. There he picks up a
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Babylon A.D. is a 2008 science fiction film based on the novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges Dantec. The film was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and stars Vin Diesel. In the near future, Toorop (Vin Diesel) is a mercenary who takes the job of escorting a woman named Aurora from Eastern Europe to New York. While he thinks this is just an ordinary mission, he gradually finds out that his guest is carrying twins that have the potential to become the next Messiahs — and everybody wants to get their hands on them.