The Book of Eli

The Book of Eli stars Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, and Gary Oldman. The movie takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. Much of the Earth was destroyed Thirty years prior. The place is a waste land and it is very much the wild west. Whoever has the resources controls the people, and whoever has the guns controls the resources. Denzel Washington plays a lone stranger named Eli, think Clint Eastwood in the Spaghetti Westerns. At the beginning he just appears to be roaming the Earth, searching for resources. Later in the film you find out that he has a book that that Gary Oldman's character, Carnegie, wants. Carnegie controls the water, and the muscle in this small town. He wants to use the book to gather more people to his town, and therefore increase his power. According to Carnegie, this book can instill hope. It can win the hearts and minds of the people, however Eli is not ready or willing to give the book up.


I enjoyed the movie. If you ready previous entries, I love anything that Gary Oldman is in. He plays a great villian I think. I need to watch more movies where he is the bad guy. Mila Kunis is alright. Her role is not too large in the film. As always, she is great to look at. Malcolm McDowell appears briefly, so that was a pleasant surprise.




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Eli is blind. It is obvious from the beginning. There is a scene where he kills a cat to eat. Then you see him walking through a desert or something. Once he enters the house, it is obvious. Running into things, always rummaging and touching things. The biggest indicator to me that he was blind were the fight scenes. He never looked at where his opponent was coming from. He was always looking forward. Also, there were tons of audio clues. Things that you normally do not hear in movies, we heard in this film because the character Eli heard it.






Final review:
I give it one out of two Swanger Brothers.