Babylon A.D.
Vin Diesel, Melanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh, Lambert Wilson
Director: Mattieu Kassovitz
The problem with casting Vin Diesel as your lead is that the man is a one-trick pony. He has to play characters who don't give a damn - because his emotional range makes cardboard seem animated in comparison.
Once he's called on to do more than flex and play it cool, the man is found wanting. And so it proves again here.
Diesel plays a fugitive who is tasked with protecting a young girl (Melanie Thierry) and a nun (Michelle Yeoh, below left) who must somehow make it to New York from somewhere in Russia. The deal for Diesel's character is he can return home to his beloved US, and the nun and girl get the services of a piece of gun-toting beefcake to keep the baddies at bay.
