Cast:Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones, Joe Pingue, Frances de la Tour, Michael Gambon, Tom Waits, Chris Browning, Richard Cetrone, Lateef Crowder, Keith Davis, Don Tai, Thom Williams, Lora Cunningham,
Thirty years after an apocalyptic event, Eli (Denzel Washington) travels on foot toward the west coast of the United States. Along the way he demonstrates uncanny survival and fighting skills, hunting wildlife and swiftly defeating a group of highway bandits who tried to ambush him. Searching for a source of water he arrives in a ramshackle town which was built by and is overseen by Carnegie (Gary Oldman). Carnegie dreams of building more towns and hinges these hopes on finding a certain book. His henchmen scour the desolate landscape daily in search of it.After shooing a cat in Carnegie’s bar, Eli is set upon by a gang of bikers and kills them all. Realizing that Eli is a literate man like himself, Carnegie asks Eli to stay, though it is made clear that the offer is non-negotiable. After Carnegie’s blind wife Claudia (Jennifer Beals) gives Eli some food Carnegie asks Claudia’s daughter Solara (Mila Kunis) to seduce Eli. Eli turns her down, but before they eat he says a prayer. The following day Solara prays with her mother, and Carnegie realizes that Eli has a copy of the Bible, the book he has been looking for, as all copies were destroyed after the apocalypse. Eli sneaks out of his room and goes to the store across the street where he asked the Engineer (Tom Waits) to recharge his portable battery. Carnegie attempts to stop Eli, having all his henchmen fire at him, but Eli avoids the gunfire and shoots most of Carnegie’s henchmen, even grazing Carnegie’s leg. After Eli leaves, Solara follows and tracks him down, hoping she can accompany him on his travels and escape the town. Eli agrees on the condition that she take him to the town’s water supply. After fulfilling her end of the bargain, Eli traps her there and continues on alone. Solara escapes and soon finds herself set upon by two men. As Solara grapples with the men, Eli suddenly appears and dispatches them with arrows. Eli and Solara continue on until they arrive at a strange house. They stop to investigate and quickly fall into a trap door. The residents Martha (Frances de la Tour) and George (Michael Gambon) appear and invite them in for tea. Eli surmises that they trap, kill, and then eat invaders, but before Eli and Solara can leave they are found by Carnegie.Eli, Solara, Martha, and George hole up inside the house, and George reveals a hidden stockpile of powerful weaponry. A shoot-out ensues, leading to the death of some of Carnegie’s men as well as George and Martha. Eli and Solara are captured. Carnegie threatens to kill Solara, which prompts Eli to hand over the Bible. Carnegie shoots him in the stomach and leaves. While in transit, Solara escapes and drives back to help Eli. Carnegie returns to the town as he has the Bible and is low on fuel. Solara picks Eli up and they continue west until they reach the Golden Gate Bridge, then they row to Alcatraz where they find a group of survivors dedicated to preserving pre-war knowledge. Eli tells the guard that he has a copy of the King James version of the Bible, and they are allowed in. Inside they are introduced to Lombardi (Malcolm McDowell), who is the curator of a collection of things from before the apocalypse. Eli, revealed to be blind, dictates the Bible from memory to Lombardi, before dying from his wounds. Carnegie has the Engineer open the Bible but is distraught to find that it is in Braille, and his wife refuses to read it to him. His leg has started to go septic, and he will die without ever having read the Bible. Alcatraz prints copies of the Bible and places one in the library amongst copies of other holy books, and Solara takes Eli’s weapons and heads back east to the town.
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The Book of Eli comments / review
Date: 2010-02-11 20:02:44
User: PostFilm
Why, yes it is, readers. Half past apocalypse.
With 2012, Carriers, Daybreakers and now this, you can't move at the cinema for end-of-the-world films.
The last one, the ace Viggo Mortensen drama The Road, only came out last Friday.
But apparently we need to watch another Hollywood A-lister plod through ash-strewn miseryscapes for two hours - so here's Denzel Washington to give it his level.
Robbie Collin's MovieTime featuring The Book of Eli
We're in grim near-future America (again), in the aftermath of global disaster (again). Every man is out for himself (again), scratching a living from the ruins while dodging cannibals and other bad guys (again).
Difference this time is, Den's not just trying to survive in a way that not only tells you something a bit interesting about human nature but also impresses an awards committee, oh no.
He's a Man On A Mission.
Denzel, you see, is carrying a book that he found shortly after "The Final War" which he reckons is vital to the survival of the human race.
Happens to be a hardback, leather-bound, King James Bible.
Which is just as well really, cos if he had happened to lay hands on a copy of the 1987 Look-in annual instead, we might have ended up with a future society built around the worship of Jason Donovan.
Den's been travelling to the western shore of the USA with the Holy Scriptures, because a "voice in his head" told him to go there, while living under the belief that "The Lord will provide".
Sadly The Lord didn't see fit to provide him with a compass though, so our hero's been plodding for the last 30 years and the poor sod doesn't look to have gotten any further than Oklahoma.
But hey. Why worry? Denzel's dedicated to his mission and has sworn to live his life by the rules the Good Book provides.
Unfortunately, it looks like he misplaced all the pages about "thou shalt not kill", "love thy neighbour" and "go and make disciples of all nations".
Because he keeps the thing hidden in his rucksack and if anyone so much as asks to see it he lops off their face with a machete.
Fortunately, he's not alone for the journey. In place of Viggo's grimy-faced lad in The Road, Denzel has a full-on foxy chick tagging along for the ride.
She's called Solara (Mila Kunis). She's a 5ft 3ins pouty-gobbed brunette, in possession of the Last Pair of Skintight Jeans of the Apocalypse, and is almost certainly the product of a Hollywood suit grumbling to scriptwriter Gary Whitta: "Yeah, yeah, that's all well and good, son. But you need to make the end of the world a bit more ruddy SEXY."
Hot on Denzel and Mila's tails is local crime lord Carnegie (Gary Oldman), who reckons he can use the words in Denzel's Bible to enslave the local population, even though his massive stash of guns and henchmen seem to be doing a fair job of that already.
What follows is a smug, annoying and hilariously self-important two hours, that's roughly 50 per cent Denzel in his Ray-Bans, waddling morosely through a heat haze towards the camera.
And the other 50 percent? An uneasy mix of US religious-right-appeasing Bible thumping and US religious-right-appeasing gun-nuttery.
Holy
In short, it's a film with almost nothing to offer level-headed British crowds, religious or otherwise. And there are enough problems to fill a King James Bible five times over.
For a holy man, Denzel's a wee bit tasty with his fists, slaughtering unbelievers left, right and centre with a bow and arrow, a sword and a pistol.
The guy's Aragorn in an anorak. A crazed fundamentalist happy to kill anyone who gets in the way of his plans (and last time I checked, not too many of those guys had signed up for the Christian team).
There's also a baffling amount of product placement.
Which I can understand if the placement's positive, sure. (Look at George Clooney's first class treatment as an American Airlines passenger in Up In The Air.)
But do you REALLY want the End of the World, brought to you by Puma and KFC?
Throw in a daft final twist, the dancing woman from Flashdance (age has not been kind), a couple of ham-fisted big-ups to Sergio Leone and two of the most bamboozling cameos for years - Rising Damp's Frances de la Tour and Michael Chuffing Gambon as a pair of wacky cannibals - and that's about the measure of it.
There are a couple of decent bits - Denzel flips a shotgun with some panache - but when the best thing about your film is "Denzel flips a shotgun with some panache," you've got problems.
The Book Of Eli is directed by the Hughes Brothers. On this evidence, they've got about as much movie-making talent as the Chuckle Brothers.
Their last film was From Hell. Guess what? So is this one.