The Book of Eli directed by The Hughes Brothers and starring Denzel Washington, as about a man who has his dedicated his entire life to relocating the last Bible on earth to a safe place. Although it sounds boring on paper, and I gave you a terrible synopsis, but it transferred much better to the screen. The setting is a post-apocalyptic wasteland in which Washington attempts to travel to the west. The post-apocalyptic setting is a bit worn, but the Hughes Brothers do what they do best and apply it to this situation. What they do is this: Violence, gore, and style, all mixed together beautifully in films like Menace II Society and From Hell, works just as well here. Although they do borrow a little from previous films of the same genre, they make it their own here and a mistake that can easily be forgiven. One problem I did have with the film was not the film itself but they way it was marketed. A high-octane thriller that is so one-dimensional it's just like every other film out there. That is definitely not the case, because the Hughes Brothers make action all their own. Sure, they make it look unrealistic, but that comes with the genre. The acting is done well by all of the supporters, but the big draw is obviously Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman. Oldman, playing the antagonist, does a fairly good job as the bad guy, a role he doesn't choose very often. Washington does a great job doing what he was hired to do. Be a bad ass. Plain and simple. He plays the role with so much emotion and grit that it would be hard not to sympathize with any problems he had in the film. His relationship with the main female, Mila Kunis, seemed a bit false and they rushed from being unfriendly to friendly. The film also gets very religious and Christian-faith oriented in the last fifteen minutes or so, so two things could come from this film for non-Christians. Either they'll dismiss whatever massage may be presented to them, or they might take something from the experience. It's up to you.
The Verdict:
Typical action film, no way. Typical post-apocalyptic story, no way. Typical Hughes Brothers neo-noir film style, definitely. I give The Book of Eli five cats for dinner out of five. 5/5
I didn't understand the story of this movie at all. It was though a religious movie but is this giving away any kind of message ? A man was saving a book from others and read it everyday. At last it came out that he learned the whole Bible.
ReplyDeletemovies