Infamousta
brilliant actors, brilliant editing
Orla Zuniga
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Lucia Ayala
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Cassandra
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Elain-ee
...is what this movie wants us to believe. It strides off boldly in that direction without a second's reflection of its basic, flawed assumption that people are feral, rapacious, murderous and greedier than the worst animals are. Opening scenes show us women who willingly collude with misogynistic highway robbers, men killing each other for water and a supposed bible basher slaughtering a dozen people at a time. The 'hero' doesn't intervene when someone else's neck is on the line, though - for example, when a couple is being beaten and raped - oh no, fulfilling his quest is more important! Presumably, the additional message here is that preserving the alleged word of God is more important than the lives of innocent men and women, who are mere pawns in the quest to ensure 'something greater' survives. What could be greater than the human mind that creates these stories? Isn't destroying people to preserve a stupid book what countless inquisitors and jihadis believe to be right? How is putting a book above human lives meant to make the world a better place, when it apparently led to the near-annihilation of the human race just 30 years earlier? None of these questions are addressed or even asked. Many of the other assumptions that are made in this film are so gross, it seems like they must have come from someone who was raised with no other education aside from the bible. People never thought of sitting down and sharing food before the bible was written? Seriously?? Ancient artefacts from Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Meso America and all across the planet would beg to differ. Even monkeys and gorillas share their food, for crying out loud (even dogs do). Countless other civilizations have managed to survive huge calamities and upheavals and survive, without a bible. The directors ought to crack open a real history book sometime. They may be pleasantly surprised what they find there. I've personally also seen better use of this sort of black n white scenery in other graphic novel adaptations, like for instance, Sin City.
funeralfortheliving
May contain spoilers...I don't know how to rate this film...Why couldn't he have saved the Constitution, Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, Naked Lunch, The Outsiders, no the one book that gives us hope...because it leaves the imagination with little else... Now if he got to the end and read it and was like "Hell Naw" "Some one played the Li for a damn blind fool." and then he slashed it and the table in half and it said: To Be Continued, like the matrix... it would have been interesting at least.
kajvanzanten
To me it was just another action movie if the story about the book was not involved. However the action looks great in a apocalypse and western scene. I think the story about the book makes it a great movie in combination with all the action. Its a great movie to watch on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
muvi-fan-73
The story is set after 30 years the war took place on planet earth. Every copy of Bible has been burned as it was considered reason of war. Now Eli a blind man (who also gains vision) sets on journey asked to him by God himself. He carries copy of Bible written in Braille. Across his journey he comes across Carnegie who himself is in search of Bible. By violent means he gets his hands over The Bible Eli carries. His wife is blind, but she will not help him with reading that holy book because she knows he will only use it for bad. On other side Eli reaches his destiny and by now he has learned the sayings and Quotes given in The Bible. He gives them for printing so that it would not be out of reach from anybody else. Although the summary is written you have to watch the movie to see how engaging and great it is.Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography: War torn cities, villages, states, countries all without much of growth in field of development. Cannibalistic nature, destruction, getting hands over things of past, everything has been captured well.Tone: War torn earth after nuclear destruction has been the tone and it is captured well.Music: It is average.Acting: It is good.Final verdict: It doesn't matter which holy book it is. It's the theme you will get attracted to. It is worth watching again and again.
