Eli (Denzel Washington) wanders post apocalyptic America guarding a mysterious book. The lord of one of the few surviving town Carnegie (Gary Oldman) will do everything to get it.
This is actually a fun movie even if it saddled with an unbelievable premise.
The action is solid with good fighting scenes that for once don’t look recycled from the Matrix. The movie is nice to watch and entertaining with a lot of nice little touches that make the experience more enjoyable.
It also looks like the writer put some thought into the creation of this society and a there are a lot of nice interesting touches like, for example, the extreme scarcity of bullets but this doesn’t bog down the brisk pace of the movie that keeps going in unexpected direction leaving us thoroughly entertained.
The whole movie is powered up by a villainous Gary Oldman who manages to make a great role out of a b movie villain. Really it looks like all you need to make a good movie is to cast Gary Oldman as the main villain. He is that good.
It’s a shame that the movie didn’t manage to convince me of the premise. I can’t believe that there is only one copy left of the most printed book in history and anyway the whole concept leaves an air of old school bigotry to an otherwise pleasant experience.
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