Review for Book of Eli
March 11th 2010 04:42
The Book of Eli is a movie starring Denzel Washington in the title role with Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, and Jennifer Beals. Upon viewing the trailers for the first time, I commented "Oh, boy here we go, Denzel wanted a movie like I AM LEGEND with Will Smith." Boy was I wrong! This movie starts out slow with Denzel alone hunting for food, trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world while protecting this "book". Meanwhile, Gary Oldman (and boy does he LOOK like an old man in this movie, luv ya anyway Gary!) is searching for a particular book and it just so happens to be the one that Denzel is protecting. In this post-apcalyptic world, most of the books have been destroyed especially the highly controversial ones. Topping the list: The Bible. Gary runs this small, western inspired town by controlling the water supply and has these goons working for him to keep people from stepping out of line. But alas, Gary wants more power to the point of mind control and he feels that by "preaching" the bible, he will have many followers (i.e. cult..can anyone say Charles Mason!?) So while traveling through this little town, Denzel goes into Gary's hotel-bar-brothel house-home (nobody can say he wasn't entrepreneurial!) and the goons start a fight with Denzel...mistake...big mistake! This is one of the coolest scenes, definitely a rewind moment when watching at home! Of course, this causes Gary to take notice and sequester Denzel on the premises. While in his room, Denzel takes the bible out and reads it. Gary sends Mila Kunis to seduce Denzel into staying with their group. While in Denzel's room, she notices the book and begs him to read to her (she is too "young" to know how to read since the books were all destroyed before she was born), he doesn't but rather tells her some things about what is in the book, like praying. Mila fails in her mission. Upon returning to Gary, she describes the book to him and he realizes this is "the one" (cue the choir: Ahhhh!) The rest of the movie is spent with the famous "good against evil" chase scenes. It has a big, climatic buildup with a cool ending and surprising twist that you definitely do not see coming (which in my book makes for an AWESOME ending/movie!) In fact, the twist at the end will make you want to watch the whole movie again to compare the scenes with your "new" knowledge. Personally, I was a little unhappy about the ending but the twist made up for it!
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