Watching this trailer got me to wondering where Vin Diesel has been these past few years. But then, if I’d once been anointed Hollywood’s next action superstar and my last big-budget star vehicle was The Pacifier, I’d go into hiding too. Babylon A.D. looks more or less like your standard futuristic thriller, with amoral antihero Diesel discovering his conscience while transporting a beautiful woman who has mysterious powers. As such, it doesn’t look any better- or any worse- than other movies of its type. But what’s disheartening is the continuing slide of director Matthieu Kassovitz, once the promising director of Café Au Lait and La Haine, now the hack behind this and Gothika. Also, is it just me, or has Clint Mansell’s Requiem for a Dream score become the most overused trailer music since the Far and Away began turning up in every other trailer in the mid-90s? Because it sure seems like it to me.