Savior or Sinner? It Can Be Tough to Tell

In "Babylon A.D." Vin Diesel, the slowest-moving action hero inmovies, travels over land and under water from somewhere in the formerSoviet Union to New York City in the company of a nun (Michelle Yeoh)and a young woman named Aurora (Mélanie Thierry). Aurora is eithersome kind of biological weapon or some kind of messianic figure.I won't say which, though this odd, solemn disaster has made itselfspoiler-proof by refusing to make any sense at all. The onlyexplicable thing about "Babylon A.D." is that it was not screened inadvance for critics. Our judgments, in any case, may be superfluous,since the director, Mathieu Kassovitz, has already publicly describedit as "pure violence and stupidity."