Well I'm back to making reviews I suppose. The first review of 2010 shall be "The Book of Eli".
The book of Eli is a film based in a Fallout 3-esque apocalyptic future. Denzel Washington is a Lone Wanderer traveling west across the lawless and barren wasteland of the USA. He's been traveling 30 or so years reading a book over and over every day. He's run into many traps and foes along his travels and has become very adept at detecting where people are hiding.
Gary Oldman is a leader of a town who is looking for the 'twinkie' of his childhood as Woody Harrelson did in Zombieland. A book that is very near and dear to him. He hires goons to kill and loot travelers to find the book. He discovers that the Lone Wanderer has it and he will do anything to get his hands on it. The Wanderer will have none of that though, and will protect the book at all costs.
The movie is pretty good in my opinion. Sure, a lot could have been better. It felt a bit empty and boring at parts, but I still enjoyed it. It reminded me a lot of Fallout 3, which I'm sure some of the writers have played. Denzel Washington even mentions "I Fought the Good Fight" at one part.
I can see how many people didn't like this movie. I didn't think it was a major masterpiece but it was a good movie. Sure, the plot was a bit... thin. They could have done more with the plot and actually said why everyone nuked each other. I'm sure the writers could only think of Fallout plot points, so they didn't say more about how they survived.
It was good though. I'd go see it if I were you.
I also have to mention how stupid the poster is. Why did they have to shove that comingsoon.com right out there? It destroys the look and feel of it. Whatever.
