Zachary FenellReview: The Book of Eli (2010)
March 4th 2010 01:06
“The Book of Eli” stars Denzel Washington as Eli, an intelligent but ambiguous character, who is traveling across a land on foot with no specific destination. Notice I said “a land.” According to the movie synopsis on IMDB, Eli is traveling across America, but nothing in the movie indicates America as the setting.
The film doesn’t stop at an underdeveloped setting, as the plot remains unclear too. Supposedly, again according to the IMDB movie synopsis, “The Book of Eli” takes place in America after an apocalypse has destroyed life as we currently know it. Again, the problem with “The Book of Eli” is none of this is really made clear within the movie. An apocalypse disaster gets referred to time and time again, but only vaguely. While “The Book of Eli” synopsis makes clear this movie takes place in the future, nothing in the actual film really indicates the timetable for the movie.
The lack of development in “The Book of Eli” prevented me from enjoying the film. This isn’t a crack against the actors and actresses in the film. Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis (who stars as the lead actress), and the rest of the cast do the best they can with the overly indistinguishable movie script. Unless you absolutely have to see every Denzel Washington movie, or every adventure movie, I would pass on “The Book of Eli.”
The film doesn’t stop at an underdeveloped setting, as the plot remains unclear too. Supposedly, again according to the IMDB movie synopsis, “The Book of Eli” takes place in America after an apocalypse has destroyed life as we currently know it. Again, the problem with “The Book of Eli” is none of this is really made clear within the movie. An apocalypse disaster gets referred to time and time again, but only vaguely. While “The Book of Eli” synopsis makes clear this movie takes place in the future, nothing in the actual film really indicates the timetable for the movie.
The lack of development in “The Book of Eli” prevented me from enjoying the film. This isn’t a crack against the actors and actresses in the film. Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis (who stars as the lead actress), and the rest of the cast do the best they can with the overly indistinguishable movie script. Unless you absolutely have to see every Denzel Washington movie, or every adventure movie, I would pass on “The Book of Eli.”
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