The Book of Eli [Blu-ray]

The Book of Eli [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

BOOK OF ELI, THE BLU-RAY (BLU-RAY DISC). With unflappable cool and shocking gentleness, Denzel Washington strides a bleak and barren world in The Book of Eli. Eli is headed west, however on the means, he passes devastation and squalor, and now and again he must mete out some devastation of his own with a pointy blade. But when he arrives in what passes for a city in this dust-and-ash future, the power-hungry proprietor of the city's bar, Carnegie (Gary Oldman, having a seem a million years old), covets his one necessary possession. (Spoiler alert, sort of: it turn intos obvious lovely quickly that it's a King James Bible.) Conflict turn ups! Though the plot is discreet and the "mystery" of the e book does not remaining lengthy, The Book of Eli is carried along effortlessly by using its big name. Washington has at all times had a compelling mixture of authority and tenderness, and it can be this latter high quality that makes this contribution to the testosterone-and-violence-drenched post-apocalyptic subgenre rapidly human. The script, whereas now not particularly original, has effective communicate and is sensible sufficient no longer to supply an evidence for an extreme amount of. The aiding actors--including Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Jennifer Beals (who hasn't aged a day due to the fact Flashdance), and Ray Stevenson (Rome)--are all in a position and straightforward on the eyes. The movie's bleached-out, sepia-tone seem is now not new both, nevertheless it swimsuits the topic matter. Anyone who needs to be offended by way of the film's spiritual conclusion could be wiser to benefit from the subversive insinuation that faith can enslave as much as store. All in all, a reliable action movie with some enjoyably bizarre elements.. Read more The Book of Eli [Blu-ray]