At one stage or another, every actor will appear in the movie that ends up being designated as the worst of their career; it’s a simple fact of life, and one that can’t be avoided. However, you know something sucks harder than usual when the project in question ends up setting that benchmark for no less than six of its stars, a feat made to look easy by the abysmal Babylon A.D.
It sounds like taking shots at a static target when alumni Mélanie Thierry and David Belle don’t have the most extensive of filmographies, but co-star Lambert Wilson has literally been working since 1977 and has never lent his name to anything with a lower Rotten Tomatoes score.
The same goes for accomplished stage and screen veteran Mark Strong, sequel-loving franchise fanatic Vin Diesel, and Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh; with a critical approval rating of just seven percent on Rotten Tomatoes, Babylon A.D. is the most widely-detested film any of the sextet have ever shown up in.
That did lead to some unintentional hilarity when Diesel congratulated Yeoh on her Golden Globe win by reminding everyone he was the brains behind her biggest critical catastrophe, but at least audiences were sensible enough to avoid Babylon A.D. in their droves to see the $70 million sci-fi blockbuster go down in a ball of box office flames.
The bad news is that it’s threatening to make a comeback on streaming, though, with FlixPatrol naming it as one of Prime Video’s top-viewed titles this week. If six of its stars have never been in anything worse; avoid it like the plague.
