Alcon Entertainment
Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Gary Oldman, Jennifer Beals
The best way to describe this film is a “post-apolcalyptic western”. I was a bit surprised by this film. I had heard nothing but good things, but I didn’t expect anything too great. Well, it was pretty good, considering. It’s pretty much like Mad Max with religious overtones. The bad guys ala WaterWorld’s “Smokers”. Eli has a book. The book is pretty important, and he’s been protecting it forever, since the big war tore a hole in the sky!
Well, it’s not what you’re expect, and there is a surprise or two. Mostly the martial arts (Denzel studied martial arts with Dan Inosanto who was trained by Bruce Lee) is really good. Denzel did his own stunts. There is a lot of action, killing, betrayal, ambushes, etc., and it keeps the movie moving right along. Then when you get to the end, you’ve got a few more surprises coming.
I enjoyed watching this. It was much better than I expected it to be. Most action, shoot ’em up, end of the world type movies leave me cold, but this movie had a lot of stuff to keep it interesting. I enjoyed it a lot.
EdG – EdsReview Dot Com – A Movie Review Blog
Movie Review - The Book of Eli (2010),
