I watched The Road before this. This film is an improvement, but it's still a terrible movie. If you are other than a devoted Christian you will hate this film for the amount of gospel it tries to pull on you. There is almost nothing otherwise to see here.
Let's get something straight – the big reveal in the end that Eli is blind is ridicules and him retelling the bible word for word, because he lost it, is just offensive. You literally made a movie about Daredevil being a zealot in post apocalypse, which is practically a western. I've seen far better movies about butt kicking blind people and this movie is not on par with them.
Eli is a horrible person. In the first 15 minutes he kills a cat, murders a pacified assaulter, doesn't intervene to stop a rape, all while mumbling that he is on a mission from god. I my opinion he's just a suicidal mad hypocrite. The premise for the books importance is laughable. The quotes are typical and bland. But his Ipod still works and has good music on it.
No movie relies to pass so much bull for us to take it up as faith. Every time Eli shoots a gun or listens to music, tough he "blinds" himself, he still has perfect reaction and aim. His enemies armed with superior weapons always miss. The leader lost most of his guys, but just lets Eli walk away while having a good shot at him. The bad guys have cars, but need hours to catch up to him on foot, while he walks in circles because he runs into the same gang of scum TWICE.
The movie clearly hates old people and proclaims that shaky hands are the result of you being a cannibal... Why?! And why must modern apocalypse movies be shot in brown and gray with heavy shadows? It makes the movies bland and fake, clearly hiding CGI. Good apocalypse films like the Mad Max trilogy don't need such filters.
The main villain was pathetic. He likes to read, but burns anything he doesn't like, rather than collect to sell to others. His reasoning to go through so much loss to find the good book – he needs its word manipulation to conquer the dispirit minds. Dude, do what so many have done before you – make up a new religion based on the old teachings, by pulling words out of your **** and guns! This is literally a no brainer! I wonder what he would have done if he found the Koran first? This degrades the tension in the movie a lot.
Uh. Terrible. Just terrible. It isn't the worst movie (The Road tops that easy), but it's still terrible.
A movie about losing faith so much they would hunt religious texts into the ground would be better, as it's rebellious. A movie about making the good book as the sole savior of all that is good in man is an ancient, forced upon you, tale.
You know what would be funny? If somebody just wanted to play a prank on Eli, whispered in his ear that they were god, gave him a random book and send him of into the desert. In the end it turned out that he can't read braille and it was actually an erotic novel. But that would make too much sense.
Let's get something straight – the big reveal in the end that Eli is blind is ridicules and him retelling the bible word for word, because he lost it, is just offensive. You literally made a movie about Daredevil being a zealot in post apocalypse, which is practically a western. I've seen far better movies about butt kicking blind people and this movie is not on par with them.
Eli is a horrible person. In the first 15 minutes he kills a cat, murders a pacified assaulter, doesn't intervene to stop a rape, all while mumbling that he is on a mission from god. I my opinion he's just a suicidal mad hypocrite. The premise for the books importance is laughable. The quotes are typical and bland. But his Ipod still works and has good music on it.
No movie relies to pass so much bull for us to take it up as faith. Every time Eli shoots a gun or listens to music, tough he "blinds" himself, he still has perfect reaction and aim. His enemies armed with superior weapons always miss. The leader lost most of his guys, but just lets Eli walk away while having a good shot at him. The bad guys have cars, but need hours to catch up to him on foot, while he walks in circles because he runs into the same gang of scum TWICE.
The movie clearly hates old people and proclaims that shaky hands are the result of you being a cannibal... Why?! And why must modern apocalypse movies be shot in brown and gray with heavy shadows? It makes the movies bland and fake, clearly hiding CGI. Good apocalypse films like the Mad Max trilogy don't need such filters.
The main villain was pathetic. He likes to read, but burns anything he doesn't like, rather than collect to sell to others. His reasoning to go through so much loss to find the good book – he needs its word manipulation to conquer the dispirit minds. Dude, do what so many have done before you – make up a new religion based on the old teachings, by pulling words out of your **** and guns! This is literally a no brainer! I wonder what he would have done if he found the Koran first? This degrades the tension in the movie a lot.
Uh. Terrible. Just terrible. It isn't the worst movie (The Road tops that easy), but it's still terrible.
A movie about losing faith so much they would hunt religious texts into the ground would be better, as it's rebellious. A movie about making the good book as the sole savior of all that is good in man is an ancient, forced upon you, tale.
You know what would be funny? If somebody just wanted to play a prank on Eli, whispered in his ear that they were god, gave him a random book and send him of into the desert. In the end it turned out that he can't read braille and it was actually an erotic novel. But that would make too much sense.