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The Book of Eli
Synopsis:Eli (Denzel Washington) has been on a journey for 30 years, walking west across America after a cataclysmic war that turned the earth into a total wasteland. The world has become a lawless civilization where people must kill or be killed. The barren roads belong to gangs of cutthroats who rob and kill for water, a pair of shoes, a lighter, or just for fun. Eli is a peaceful man who only acts in self defense & becomes a warrior with unbelievable killing skills when he is challenged. After the war and the "Big Flash," he was guided by a higher power to a hidden book & given the task of protecting & taking it to its final destination. He guards the book with his life because it is the only hope humanity has for its future.
Genre: Action | Adventure | Science Fiction | Fantasy |
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I saw this film and I thought it lacked a bit of color, literally and figuratively; as dry as its setting and as uneventful as its plot. Not sure if it was the story itself or just the way it was made that made this film a little boring. Too bad Denzel had to be in this film because I like him. (May 14, 2010)
(May 14, 2010 11:29:13 AM)
This wanted to be an epic movie, but fell short of it. Maybe they should have increased the action sequences at the very least to make it worth the box office. And how can the most published book in history disappear totally? The movie could not even postulate it convincingly.
(April 20, 2010 11:30:20 AM)
Another post-apocalyptic essay, this time an attempt at debating the role of religion in man's self-destruction and self-recovery. It's like the sepia-toned version of The ROAD, and therefore lighter in treatment, more commercial, more gore, more action, and almost absolutely zero integrity. The pretty Mila Kunis plays a teenager born AFTER the war that destroyed modern civilization, yet she wears makeup like she just came from a Beverly Hills salon, struts and talks like she's from 90210, and has a yoga-perfect body. Only the really bad guys who predictably are shot or chopped dead really look like survivors. This is one of Gary Oldman's worse performances as a bad guy, and Washington is boring. Sitting through The ROAD WARRIOR is time better spent than this. Because I saw The ROAD ahead, some landscape photography look familiar, and consequently, unimpressive.
(March 28, 2010 10:24:47 PM)
Jan Michael Lagapa says:
I saw this film and I thought it lacked a bit of color, literally and figuratively; as dry as its setting and as uneventful as its plot. Not sure if it was the story itself or just the way it was made that made this film a little boring. Too bad Denzel had to be in this film because I like him. (May 14, 2010)