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is not Mad Max . It is not John Wick . It is a slow, melancholic, and intentionally confusing road movie about the death of the human soul and the birth of something new. Vin Diesel’s wooden delivery, which failed in 2008, now reads as a man dissociating from trauma.

The problem was the studio. Fox executives reportedly hated the ending, the lack of humor, and the ambiguous finale. They demanded a re-shoot of the finale and hired a different editor to cut the film down to 90 minutes. Babylon AD