Babylon A.D. (2008)
7/10
I haven't seen the shorter 20th Century Vole version
21 August 2020
Evidently there are two versions of this movie, one which was badly cut and had something approaching a happy ending, and another, longer, which ends in the same dystopian frame of mind as the beginning. I've only seen the longer cut which is perhaps why I liked it.

There was one scene where vin diesel cooks himself some rabbit. Naturally, I tried cooking like he did in the film (throw the bunny pieces into the pan, chopped onions, a bit of wine). What I learned was that unless you get the bunny filet, there are too many bones. Bunny hard to cook.

Never understood why Toorop had the word slon (in cyrillic, means elephant) tattooed to his fingers not unlike Jake and Elliot Blues.

The "Vladivostok" scene (been there, that's not Vladivostok) reminds me of home, how everywhere you go now there is a sort of post-Soviet bazaar. For me, the film becomes less interesting once our hapless heroes reach North America.
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