The Book of Eli, 2010

Such mixed feelings... On the one hand, I enjoyed the non-preachy message the film presents, and I love how faith driven Eli is and how remorseful he is about the bad things he has had to do...but, I cant let my personal beliefs cloud my opinion of the movie as a whole. -- Honestly, the film is a mess, a mishmash of extremely well thought-out/filmed scenes, and other scenes that are extremely clunky and amateurish. Basically, I enjoyed every scene where no one talked, but once anyone opened their mouth it made me feel like I was wasting my time. Gary Oldman and Denzel Washinton, I think, did the best they could given the material, but Mila Kunis felt pretty out of place and everyone else was just sort of there. I get the idea that this would have made a better comicbook than it did a movie; the scene towards the beginning of the film, when Eli waylays a group of raiders inside of a tunnel, is evocative of this fact: The scene is shot completely in silhouette, and appears to have leapt straight of the pages of a graphic novel. I cant really say I didnt enjoy the film, because I did enjoy parts of it, but I cant say that I really liked it either. The Book of Eli is a mixed bag for me, that ultimately, and unfortunately, is mixed with more bad than good. Mediocre at best.

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