The Book of Eli certainly brings to mind that other monstrosity among American post-apocalyptic films, I am Legend, which also weds the genre's conventions with religious nonsense. The post-apocalyptic has a lot to offer as a genre but it is too bad that they make them with such naivete. The electronic soundtrack adds to the films self-important pretentiousness. It is sad seeing a good actor such as Gary Oldman playing for the 100th time the cartoonish villain. The violence is ridiculously overplayed and unrealistic, but it is fun if you do not take the film seriously (and how could someone take it seriously?) and the performances are below average. ![]() That being said, the film has nice cinematography and, while the imagery is typical post-apocalyptic fare, it is well done and can be impressive. Meanwhile, it is the film itself that is a laughable ideology that seems to have been written by an American fundamentalist (this is especially clear in the finale with the 'blindness' plot twist and Denzel Washington lying shaved, in white garb on his deathbed, like a saint despitethe fact that he has massacred half the population of survivors along the way). Another oh-so-typical evil man wants the same book so he can exploit its words and use them as an ideological weapon to control people. ![]() A silly christian parable about a man in a post-apocalyptic world who tries to save a King James bible for humanity.
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