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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Babylon A.D. can be found here.

Yes. It is based on Babylon Babies (1999), a novel by French science fiction writer Maurice Georges Dantec.

Anno Domini, which is Latin for 'year of our lord', referring to the years since Jesus Christ was traditionally born. As a frame of reference, the current year 2008 can be written as A.D. 2008. Anno Domini corresponds to Common Era (C.E.), a term that does not use the religious reference explicit in "anno Domini."

Undetermined, but after having seen the tigers, Aurora mentions that they were extinct in 2017. The tigers they saw were the second generation of clones.

No. As noted above, Babylon A.D. is based on the novel Babylon Babies. Other than the word "Babylon" and the fact that both stories are futuristic, there is no connection.

WorstPreviews.com has posted an article in which they provide quotes supposedly made by director Mathieu Kassovitz in an interview with AMCTV in which Kassovitz admits anger with the final results of this film, particularly the fact that it got edited down to 93 minutes in order to get a PG-13 rating.