{"id":4029,"date":"2010-02-16T01:55:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T05:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2010-02-15T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:04:27","slug":"the-book-of-eli-review-some-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4029","title":{"rendered":"“The Book of Eli” Review – Some Spoilers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Pitch:<\/strong> Denzel Washington<\/strong> and the Hughes Brothers<\/strong> team to bring us a post-apocalyptic action\/adventure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Overview:<\/strong> Denzel Washington<\/strong> plays a lone traveler<\/strong> on a holy mission<\/strong> to take the last remaining bible<\/strong> to a place that he will know once he gets there.\u00a0 Gary Oldman<\/strong> is the town boss who wants the bible to strengthen his power over those living in his town.<\/p>\n

The Good: <\/strong> Denzel<\/strong> is always good and this role is no exception.\u00a0 The concept<\/strong> works.\u00a0 Tom Waits<\/strong> as the town barterer.\u00a0 The old cannibal<\/strong> couple.\u00a0 The first action sequence<\/strong> set-up.<\/p>\n

The Bad: <\/strong> The fight scenes<\/strong> go by too quickly.\u00a0 Not showing how Denzel <\/strong>got out of a locked room in which he was being held a prisoner.\u00a0 Later, when Denzel<\/strong> walks away and is being shot at, no one seems overly surprised when he is not hit.\u00a0 Even later, Denzel<\/strong> shot point blank<\/strong> in the stomach looks to be dying.\u00a0 In the next scene he slaps some duct tape<\/strong> on the wound and gets up to continue his journey.<\/p>\n

The Ugly:<\/strong> Life in Oldman\u2019s town<\/strong>.\u00a0 What happens if you touch Denzel<\/strong> after being warned not to.<\/p>\n

The Summary:<\/strong> I enjoyed the movie<\/strong>, but wish that some of the fight scenes had been longer and clearer.\u00a0 I get that the intent was to show how quickly Denzel<\/strong> could dispatch a half dozen thugs, but it would have been more enjoyable to see the scenes as more than a blur or in shadow.\u00a0 I also get that Denzel\u2019s escape<\/strong> from the room was supposed to be a shock to his captors, but it felt like a cheat to just accept that he was out without seeing how he did it.<\/p>\n

I guess that\u2019s what is a bit odd\u2026 the whole movie is about a man\u2019s faith<\/strong> that God<\/strong> is taking him on a mission.\u00a0\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t know where or why, but his faith<\/strong> is enough to protect him and get him through to the end.\u00a0 Of course, faith is believing in something that you can\u2019t directly see <\/strong>and yet, it was the things that I couldn\u2019t directly see in the movie that I found to be my biggest complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pitch: Denzel Washington and the Hughes Brothers team to bring us a post-apocalyptic action\/adventure. The Overview: Denzel Washington plays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}