The Book of Eli

[daisho2004]

OK I got to see this movie last night and it started out OK had 2 good fight scenes that were very quick with Eli using his Machete on some bad dudes. But it really never explained anything, why there was an Apocalypse for, what year was it. It was like a newer version of "Mad Max's: Road Warrior" except with a Bible behind the main story and to show how powerful Religion can be when it comes to your faith. So I would say it was overall an Apocalyptic failure! That could've been so much better.

synopsis:

Eli (Denzel Washington) 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.

*ENDING SPOILERS:

In the end Eli's face is shown that his eyes clearly sustained severe damage-- presumably from the super-intense bright flash of a nuclear explosion-- and he stares blankly off into space. Eli was blinded in the apocalypse and has navigated his way across the continent through his other senses, honed to incredible acuteness over the past thirty years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfZrbS79To