- - - "I need that book. I want that book. I want you to stay but if you make me have to choose I'll kill you and take that book"- - - FILM ONLY REVIEW They're a cheerful bunch these film makers. Watch any number of movies set in the relatively near future and you'd be under the impression that some time soon, the earth is set to be struck by a cataclysmic earthquake/nuclear war/virus leaving a small number of survivors destined to wander the wasted land entertaining themselves with murder/cannibalism/rape/blowing things up/listening to Tina Turner. Released in 2010, Book of Eli is yet another of these post-apocalyptic ...  Read the complete review

Post-apocalyptic films seem to be all the rage these days with 2007's 'I am Legend' seeming to capture the public imagination and successfully bring the genre back into fashion. The latest addition to the genre is the Hughes Brothers directed 'The Book of Eli' which sees Denzel Washington's eponymous 'hero' walking across America in an attempt to carry a sacred book to a safe location. The book in question is the bible, and as it's the last one in existence, it happens to be a highly sought after item. Realising its power to control vast numbers of people, bad-guy 'Carnegie' (Gary Oldman) makes it his objective to find the book, thus putting himself and Eli on a ...  Read the complete review

- Story - Set in a post-apocalyptic society, Eli is a loner who's spent the last 30 years or so travelling west, shooting birds and other animals and searching for valuables in abandoned buildings to exchange for water (which has become one of the most precious commodities) he has a very important book in his possession and is waiting to find the right place to settle down and share it with the locals. However, he's dismayed by the behaviour of many of the people that he comes across... he has superior fighting skills and this comes to the attention of a local ganglord/gangster called Carnegie in the town Eli is in one day, who offers him a job working for him ...  Read the complete review

I rarely say this about a film, but the Book of Eli is one film where I severely resent the few hours I spent watching it. My main problem with the film starts right from the beginning and the setting of the scene. It is set in our world in the future.....which is actually a big assumption on my part as we are never actually told this. I have watched enough science fiction and futuristic films to know that often you just have to use your imagination and explanations aren't always plentiful, however this film didn't even attempt to broach the subject. The World that Denzel Washington inhabits is a harsh, very bright and baren one and it is hinted ...  Read the complete review

This is a film I picked up recently not really knowing what it was about or what it was like. I saw that it starred Denzel Washington in the lead role and thought that was good enough for me. The story centres around a man called Eli (Denzel Washington), and the book he has in his possession, in some kind of post-apocalyptic time in the not-too-distant future. He is walking across America trying to protect a sacred book and take it to a safe location. He is doing this because a voice from within told him to. With blind faith he just walks alone westwards, guarding the book, without knowing where he is going or who he will meet. Society in this ...  Read the complete review