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The Book of Eli

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Original title: The Book of Eli
Year: 2010
Running time: 118 min.
Country: United States
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Screenwriter: Gary Whitta
Music: Atticus Ross
Cinematography: Don Burgess
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Tom Waits, Malcolm McDowell, Michael Gambon, Frances de la Tour, Lateef Crowder, Chris Browning, Lora Martinez, Luis Bordonada, Joe Pingue
Producer: Alcon Entertainment / Silver Pictures
Genre: Sci-Fi. Adventure. Action | Post-apocalyptic Future. Futuristic Western. Dystopia. Religion
Synopsis / Plot: A post-apocalyptic tale, 30 years after the 'flash', in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

Critics' reviews

"The Book of Eli isn't as exciting or funny (...) as it wants and needs to be (...) But Washington, a movie star who can act, is one cool dude who is worth following anywhere. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"(...) a bizarre and sententious pastiche"

Joe Morgenstern: The Wall Street Journal
" (...) a dynamic story, sprinkled with some interesting ideas"

Mick LaSalle: San Francisco Chronicle
"The Book of Eli employs the genre conventions of the western to make mythic its principal character (...) in a word: inspirational."

Carrie Rickey: Philadelphia Inquirer
"A hyper-violent, post-apocalyptic Western in the mold of 'Mad Max' (...) Gary Oldman makes a great villain (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"

Michael O'Sullivan: The Washington Post
"The Road with twice the plot, four times the ammunition, and half the brains; it’ll probably make 10 times the money (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"

Ty Burr: Boston Globe
"Travolta had his Battlefield Earth, Costner had his Waterworld and now Denzel Washington has his truly awful sci-fi epic, The Book of Eli."

Colin Covert: Minneapolis Star Tribune

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