Starring:
Denzel Washington
Review:
If Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman and the return of the Hughes
brothers (it's been damn near a decade since From Hell)
isn't enough to jazz you about The Book of Eli, you're
probably not much of a film freak. OK, the movie is an apocalyptic
tale with a religioso bent that does it no favors. We've been down
this road to doom before, most recently in The Road. And
Gary Whitta's script chokes on the dust of what came before.
Peter Travers reviews The Book of Eli in his weekly video
podcast, "At the Movies With Peter Travers."
Luckily, Allen Hughes and his directing twin, Albert, have
skills. They can energize the familiar. Washington's Eli is a
menace to a society that forgot about God when the "flash" (read:
nuclear winter) reduced the world to rubble 30 years ago. Eli keeps
heading...
Rating: 2 Stars
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