Friday, January 15, 2010

The Book Of Eli


This was a total surprise!!!  What a wonderful movie.   The most Christian movie I have seen come out of secular Hollywood since the Passion Of The Christ.  Denzel Washington plays the part of a lone traveller in an post apocolyptic world, destined to protect the last bible on Earth.  He walks this road with a serene elegance and poise as if he is being guided.   Always heading west...   he just knows that eventually he will come to a place where his charge can be read and appreciated at the right time.   Until then he is its feircest protector.   Some people wont get it I am sure.   They will have gone in expecting an action movie only..   Which they will get for sure as the movie is chalk full of that.  But they will also get a fantastic morality tail and a deeper story. In an interview I read that Washington, a Christian himself, changed parts of the script to better bring out the Christian message.   Which was fantastic.    I love it when I am surprised about movies.. and this is definitely one of them.  6.0/6.0

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