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Careering in between moments of low biblical thoughtfulness and impassioned violence, the Denzel Washingtons monosyllabic lead impression who provides all the amour in this post-apocalyptic drama.
As a puzzling person arriving face to face with the American mid-west to broach the last superfluous duplicate of the Bible to an primarily vague source, the movie recalls as well most of the post-nuclear forebears to list sufficient to contend there are demented cannibals and robbery outlaws aplenty to keep the tract relocating along as we"re treated with colour to the philharmonic of the expel of Mad Max contrary with Washingtons detached protagonist.
If the opening scene, of Eli (Denzel Washington) roasting a cat for his cooking whilst listening to Al Green on an old iPod, seems to guarantee a clarity of humour, the a goal sadly dashed in the rest of the movie, that centres on the efforts of mafiosi Carnegie (played by Gary Oldman) to soothe Eli of his duplicate of the great book so that he can have use of it for his own sinful ends.
Unusually for a biblical scholar, Eli is hexed of superhuman skills in self-defence that have Carnegies pursuit some-more formidable than he imagined. Its diverting, if bleakly so, and though the post-nuclear backdrop might appear really familiar, the the whinging feeling that the movie is someway proselytising that keeps it from fulfilling the potential.
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