BABYLON A. D.

Year: 2008
USA: Twentieth Century Fox
UK: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Melanie Thierry, Gerard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Jerome Le Banner
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Country: USA
USA: 90 mins
UK: 90 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language and some sexuality
UK Certificate: 12A contains infrequent strong language and moderate violence
USA Release Date: 29 August 2008
UK Release Date: 29 August 2008
UK Release Date: 29 December 2008

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Synopsis

It is the not-too-distant future. Thousands of satellites scan, observe and monitor our every move. Much of the planet is a war zone; the rest, a collection of wretched way stations, teeming megalopolises, and vast wastelands punctuated by areas left radioactive from nuclear meltdowns.

It is a world made for hardened warriors, one of whom, a mercenary known only as Toorop (Vin Diesel), lives by a simple survivor's code: kill...or be killed. His latest assignment has him smuggling a young woman named Aurora from a convent in Kazakhstan to New York City.

Toorop, his new young charge Aurora (Melanie Thierry) and Aurora's guardian Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh) embark on a 6,000 mile journey that takes them from Eastern Europe, through a refugee camp in "New Russia," across the Bering Straight in a pilfered submarine, then through the frozen tundra of Alaska and Canada, and finally to New York. Facing obstacles at every turn, Toorop, the killer for hire, is tested like never before, in ways he could never have imagined - as he comes to understand that he is the custodian of the only hope for the future of mankind.

For the first time in his life, Toorop has to make a choice: to make a difference or walk away and save himself.

Too bad it came on the day he died.

The Babylon A.D. extended DVD and Blu-ray both include a pulse-pounding extended main feature with even more blasts for your buck, plus a stack of exclusive extras, including filmmaking featurettes, a prequel to Babylon, galleries and much more. Both releases also include a digital copy of the film allowing you to transfer the entire movie onto a portable device such as your iPod or laptop.

DVD / BLU-RAY EXTRAS

EXTENDED DVD & BLU-RAY FEATURES
Babylon Babies (10mins)
Artic Escape (5mins)
Weapons Gallery (5mins)
Prequel To Babylon (5min)
Digital Copy - Extended Version

ADDITIONAL BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
Fit For Screen (7mins)
Flight Of The Hummer (7.5min)
Deleted Scenes Gallery
Bd-Live: Bootstrap Application
Picture-In-Picture