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It takes about three seconds of the trailer to realize Babylon A.D. is a total disaster.  Still, it’s pretty fun to hear the director himself say so.  Mathieu Kassovitz recently spoke to AMC TV.

"I’m very unhappy with the film," he says. "I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn’t respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience."
"It’s pure violence and stupidity," he admits. "The movie is supposed to teach us that the education of our children will mean the future of our planet. All the action scenes had a goal: They were supposed to be driven by either a metaphysical point of view or experience for the characters… instead parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24."
"Fox was sending lawyers who were only looking at all the commas and the dots," he says. "They made everything difficult from A to Z." The last stroke, Kassovitz says, was when Fox interfered with the editing of the film, paring it down to a confusing 93 minutes (original reports were that 70 minutes were cut from the film; Kassovitz says the number is closer to 15).
"I should have chosen a studio that has guts," he says. "Fox was just trying to get a PG-13 movie. I’m ready to go to war against them, but I can’t because they don’t give a s–t." 

RopeofSilicon also points out that though Babylon A.D. opens this weekend, Fox has done nothing to promote it nor do they plan to screen it for critics.  They’re also the studio behind such greatest bombs of 2008 as The Happening, The Rocker, Meet Dave, and X-Files 2.  Apparently, at Fox, wasting shitloads of money is job one.  Then again, it would be just like a Frenchman to dream up half-assed excuses for not going to war.  TASTE FREEDOM FRIES, FAGGOT!  *punches bystander*