The Book Of Eli
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
16 November 1973, Denton, Texas, USA
19 October 1940, Cabra, Dublin, Ireland
23 January 1988, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
14 August 1983, Chernovtsy, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
31 January 1962, San Diego, California, USA
November 08, 2016
Post-apocalypse films are a dime a dozen, so what makes The Book of Eli so different? Not much, except an evangelical subplot that is not strong enough to be this film's savior.
July 30, 2012
The ending of this film has got to be the longest ending in the history of cinema.
January 22, 2010
Washington doesn't look as if he's having much fun, and who can blame him?
July 27, 2010
The prophet Denzel practices his preach in the post-apocalyptic western The Book of Eli. Jesus will not be pleased.
January 15, 2010
Really, it's just another prophet-in-the-wilderness tale -- not nearly as bad as those trailers would suggest, yet neither will your soul run any risk of enlightenment.
March 02, 2010
t's a post-apocalyptic western, it's an evangelical tract, it's a road movie, it's a martial arts movie, it's a disaster movie, it's a graphic novel. It's equal parts The Road and The Robe, A Fistful of Dollars and Fist of Fury. It's Mad Max meets Left Be
January 15, 2010
Allen and Albert Hughes have created a plausible post-apocalyptic world.
January 19, 2010
I'm not going to give it away, but there's a final plot twist in this movie that is beyond absurd.
September 24, 2012
"The Book of Eli" falls prey to several of the problems that "The Road" had, and while it wasn't as big a failure as that film, it's still a lot of apocalyptic wasteland to get through.
July 24, 2010
...a watchable endeavor that should please fans of the genre...
May 06, 2011
The Hughes brothers' film feels more vibrant than the bleak Road, which was launched at us in November. Here the brothers show us the horror but somehow the staid and calm Denzel feels more approachable than the distraught and scrambling Viggo.
October 21, 2010
I sat down to The Book of Eli expecting a lecture, and was instead treated to a rollicking action film that evoked the manic ultra-violence of Mad Max rather than the sensitive study of humanity of The Road.
