The Hughes brothers' film feels more vibrant than the bleak Road, which was launched at us in November. Here the brothers show us the horror but somehow the staid and calm Denzel feels more approachable than the distraught and scrambling Viggo.
The Book of Eli
Some will kill to have it. He will kill to protect it.
2010 · 1h 58m · R
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Albert Hughes
,
Allen Hughes
Overview
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Director and cast
- Albert Hughes Director
- Allen Hughes Director
- Denzel Washington as Eli
- Gary Oldman as Carnegie
- Michael Gambon as George
- Mila Kunis as Solara
- Jennifer Beals as Claudia
- Ray Stevenson as Redridge
- Frances de la Tour as Martha
- Tom Waits as Engineer
- Lateef Crowder as Highjacker #3
- Chris Browning as Highjacker Leader
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
t's a post-apocalyptic western, it's an evangelical tract, it's a road movie, it's a martial arts movie, it's a disaster movie, it's a graphic novel. It's equal parts The Road and The Robe, A Fistful of Dollars and Fist of Fury. It's Mad Max meets Left Be
Washington doesn't look as if he's having much fun, and who can blame him?
I'm not going to give it away, but there's a final plot twist in this movie that is beyond absurd.
Really, it's just another prophet-in-the-wilderness tale -- not nearly as bad as those trailers would suggest, yet neither will your soul run any risk of enlightenment.
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