The Hughes Brothers, directors of From Hell and Menace II Society among others, have created an interesting and thoughtful action movie, that also carries a message of faith and hope.
The action set-pieces are well handled, and the photography of the movie, is very well done.
While the setting itself isn’t particularly new, along similar lines to Mad Max and other movies of this kind, they still get some pretty impressive visuals.
They are also helped by having two of the best actors around in this movie.
Denzel Washington carries the movie easily and is also very convincing in the action sequences.
Gary Oldman as Carnegie gives a performance more in line with some earlier work, such as Leon than some recent performances but he is always worth watching.
The rest of the cast, led by Mila Kunis all give good support.
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Eli (Denzel Washington) has been on a journey for 30 years, walking west across America after a cataclysmic war that turned the earth into a total wasteland.
The world has become a lawless civilization where people must kill or be killed.
The barren roads belong to gangs of cutthroats who rob and kill for water, a pair of shoes, a lighter, or just for fun.
Eli is a peaceful man who only acts in self defense, and becomes a warrior with unbelievable killing skills when he is challenged.
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Goofs
- Revealing mistakes: The 30-year-old tires on the motorcycles look brand new.
- Errors in geography: Eli and Solara smell sea air, and we next see them on the Golden Gate Bridge.This would only be even remotely plausible coming from the north, through Marin County, and they would view the water on any number of occasions before getting to the Marin side of the Bridge.
Coming from the east for 30 years, Oakland and Berkeley are the most likely points of arrival.
- Continuity: When Solara is looking for Eli after she steals the car as she pulls up to Eli, the vehicle’s driver side window has a big hole cut out instead of a small cutout with the mesh grille in it.In the next scene after she gets him in the vehicle it goes back to cutout with the mesh grille.
- Continuity: In the final scene between Carnegie and Claudia, Gary Oldman’s forehead goes from grimy to clean to grimy again between shots.
- Factual errors: A Braille Bible would be larger than a standard Bible, and would be printed in multiple volumes.
- Anachronisms: When Solara screams after Eli is shot, you can see amalgam fillings in her molars.In this post-apocalyptic time, there are no dentists.
- Factual errors: When the Bible is placed on a shelf with the sacred books of other religions, one of these books is the stone edition ArtScroll Tanach (Judaism).In this book is an English translation of the old testament that is identical to that of the Bible.
While it is true that it does not have the new testament, particular significance is attributed to the old testament throughout the movie (all quotes are from the old testament).
