Book Of Eli Movie Review

Denzel Washington is the man. He can officially play role he wants to and make a shitty movie good. And yes Book of Eli seems like a shitty movie, until the Zatoichi twist at the end of the movie. For those who know who Zatoichi is sorry about the spoiler.

Eli (Denzel) has a King James bible in his possession and something inside him which he calls Faith is sending him west during the aftermath of some sort of Apocalyptic event. Gary Oldman plays Carnegie, a man who remembers a time before the “FLASH” and is looking to use the book to trap the minds of the simple minded people that are left on this world. And this world is bad, I mean Mad Max bad. It has everything you expect in an movie about the Apocalypse including cannibalism, rape, control, and a whole lot of desert and dust. The future is dirty. Luckily the Hughes brothers made a very believable future for all of us.

The movie was slow and as soon as I got out of the theater I was relieved that I could leave. I hated it initially, but then the themes and concepts started to sink in, plus the twist made this movie super bad ass. The more and more I thought about the film, the more I liked it. And you can’t go wrong with Mila Kunis, not only is she super fine, I mean Megan Fox fine(Yeah I said, and I meant it!), but unlike Megan Fox she is a great actress. Although her decision at the end of this film is just plain stupid.

Check this movie if you can handle some disturbing images and if you like movies about the end of the world.