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The Book of Eli Movie Review

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By Eddy Much like Denzel Washington's newest film out on in theaters I am going to get straight to the point. The film was ok.  Directed by the Hughes brothers of Menace to Society and Fame , their latest effort leaves me a bit bored and ultimately unsatisfied.    It is hard to categorize this movie, is it a religious movie, is it a supernatural or sci-fi thriller?  It's a bit of both.  While it feeds off two wildly popular genre's religion and apocalyptic thriller it feels like it is lacking in both areas.  There is an unfinished quality in the story as well as the directing and acting. The film follows Eli 30 years after some apocalyptic event (of which we learn nothing about as well as its after affects) which leave the entire U.S. and assumedly the world in a Road Warrior/Mad Max type of waste land.  In the middle of it, Eli is traveling by foot across the country with the only bible in existence (they were all burned as the cause of all the destruction).  On his … [Read more...]