The Book of Eli
United States
2010
118 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
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Eli has been on a journey for 30 years, walking west across America after a cataclysmic war that turned the earth into a total wasteland. The world has become a lawless civilization where people must kill or be killed. The barren roads belong to gangs of cutthroats who rob and kill for water, a pair of shoes, a lighter, or just for fun. Eli is a peaceful man who only acts in self defense, and becomes a warrior with unbelievable killing skills when he is challenged. After the war and the “Big Flash”, Eli was guided by a higher power to a hidden book and given the task of protecting the book and taking it to its final destination. Eli guards the book with his life, because he knows that the book is the only hope that humanity has for its future. —IMDb
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Howard Orr
19May12
A film whose only novelty is that it is uniquely derivative, and made all the more objectionable by its cloying moral tone and absurd premise.
Jason Callen
16Mar12
I'll give it an extra half star for some good cinematography and for having Tom Waits in a small role. Otherwise, it's pretty thin. Clearly the Hughes Brothers weren't really interested in exploring the ideas that they bring up. Instead, they settle for a pastiche of westerns and comic book films. To bad, there could have been a good movie here, the premise had lots of potential.
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THE BOOK OF ELI Review
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
The Hughes brothers don’t make too many films (it’s already been 9 years since From Hell), but when they immerse themselves in a project the end result is often worth pursuing. As proven by their latest
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Solid apocalpytic action flick
By Henrik Schunk on May 25, 2012
A very interesting premise and impressive art direction / cinematorgraphy makes this an above average post-apocalyptic western (oh yeah). Unfortunately, a lacklustre execution and the need to stick… read review
A post-apocalyptic actioneer that plays like the cut-scenes from a faith-based video game...
By Mutt on January 4, 2011
American film-makers the Hughes brothers (“Dead Presidents” & “From Hell”) team up with English video game designer and journalist Gary Whitta (“Duke Nukem Forever” & “Gears of War”) for the… read review
The Good Book
By Hunter Duesing on June 19, 2010
Usually I find that if Denzel Washington is in a movie, said movie has… read review
The Book of Eli
By Amir Syarif Siregar on May 1, 2010
Sembilan tahun setelah merilis film terakhirnya, From Hell, duo sutradara Allen dan Albert Hughes kembali berada di balik layar untuk menghasilkan karya terbaru mereka, The Book of Eli. Tidak main… read review
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The Book of Eli: Another Idiotic religious Movie
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