Review: The Book Of Eli

Meh, didn't really do anything for me. Don't buy Denzel as an ass-kicker anymore, and it didn't really explain anything other than the bare minimum to get a working plot across.

Also, are walls really thin in the future, because everyone seemed to whisper the whole time.

I enjoyed this quite a lot, more than I thought.
Can't be compared to The Road in any shape whatsoever. It bugged me for a while, having watched The Road yesterday for the 3rd time.
I sat there and my brain was saying "Nope, The Road is better. The Road looks like a dying world, Viggo Mortensen looks like a man slowly shutting down, Denzel looks like a model for Millets Outdoor Wear" until brain just switched off.

Completely different films.
The Road is a studious, portentious & overwhelmingly hopeless window into a world that is dead and people that are dying.
2hrs of suffocated pain & loss watching a Father trying to prepare his son for death.
The Book of Eli is a drama about faith and it's place in the world. And fighting with knives & guns because it's cool in movies. A very cinematic movie.

It's silly to compare. It's like comparing Schindler's List & Inglorious Basterds.
The Book of Eli is a fun, thoughtful way to spend a couple hrs watching Denzel Washington be cool as usual.
The Road is a soul-blackening, ash-filled howl of desperation.
And The Book of Eli has Tom Waits in, which makes it +1 in awesome.

Overall? 3 star, good-but-froth action film with a touch more brain than a lot.

i enjoyed watchings this a couple of nigths ago, isnt it great when similar films come out at the same time??
Deep impact - Armageddon, im sure theres more..

i actually thinking having seen the road before this it added to the film, and if antying gave it some emotion that the film lacked....

i enjoyed eli, i wouldnt exactly say Kunis is just a 'product of our times' i thought she was good, added a nice naivety to Denzel, whilst her character wasnt that great it added a little something to the character of Eli.

I dunno. This just looks like zero fun to me, even with a shouty Gary Oldman. Denzel gives good intensity but this looks like your average 'man roams a post-apocalyptic world' script but without any recognisable emotions or characters.

I guess watching The Road before this probably makes it worse.