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The Book of Eli

2010

Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes

Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson ...

5.6

33,049

Sci-Fi. Adventure. Action A post-apocalyptic tale, 30 years after the 'flash', in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The Book of Eli isn't as exciting or funny (...) as it wants and needs to be (...) But Washington, a movie star who can act, is one cool dude who is worth following anywhere. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"
		Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"(...) a bizarre and sententious pastiche"
		Mick LaSalle SFGATE	" (...) a dynamic story, sprinkled with some interesting ideas"
		Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer	"The Book of Eli employs the genre conventions of the western to make mythic its principal character (...) in a word: inspirational."
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"A hyper-violent, post-apocalyptic Western in the mold of 'Mad Max' (...) Gary Oldman makes a great villain (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"
		Ty Burr Boston Globe	"The Road with twice the plot, four times the ammunition, and half the brains; it’ll probably make 10 times the money (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"Travolta had his Battlefield Earth, Costner had his Waterworld and now Denzel Washington has his truly awful sci-fi epic, The Book of Eli."

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