Babylon A.D. (2008)

  This movie didn't suck as much as I had heard it would.  I expected it to be a bit more sci-fi, though.  You can barely tell it's supposed to be set in a dystopian future until one of the characters mentions that bengal tigers went extinct in 2017.  Which may still turn out to be true, sadly.

Anyway, it is a dystopian future and Toorop (Vin Diesel with the worst character name ever) is a mercenary badass and a pretty decent cook.  He gets hired by a guy named Gorsky (Gerard Depardieu, slumming it) to escort a woman from a convent in Mongolia to New York City.  The woman turns out to be more of a girl named Aurora (Melanie Thierry) who comes with a minder named Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh).  Sister Rebeka has a lot of rules like "don't talk to the girl", "don't let other people talk to the girl", and "no cussing".  This is because Aurora has been raised in the convent her entire life and has no experience dealing with people.  That immediately goes out the window the first time they have to get through a mob of people in Russia.  Weird crap keeps happening around the girl the entire trip and Toorop starts to question the wisdom in completing their journey.

The version I was watching wasn't a very good copy so the action scenes were grainy but I could tell they hadn't been filmed to be that way.  I don't know how many of you out there have watched streaming stuff on HD TVs, but if so, you know what I'm talking about.  I would actually recommend getting it as a blu-ray if you're at all interested because the action scenes were pretty decent.  The Big Reveal at the end is kind of a let-down and pretty rushed to boot but, overall, it's not a bad action flick.