The movie needs to come out of a mind that pays no attention to plots that have gone before. The OVER USE of computer animation has become boring and does not in the lest lend anything to character development except when a human morphs into another being. A movie needs to provide entertainment for me and I am not entertained when I perceive a thinly-veiled political statement heavy on the liberal side.
Over the years, there have been plenty of life-after-world-wide-catastrophe movies. The Book of Eli is a life-after-a-world-wide-catastrophe movie and has none-of-the-above elements. There is a natural progression of character development unaided or hampered by any obvious computer animation. At no time was I disappointed with plot aspects borrowed from past movies because there were none; neither was the experience marred with liberal political statements.
Denzel Washington not only makes the character Eli live on the screen, I cared immediately and to the bitter-sweet end. I saw the movie in a small-town theater. At the conclusion, there was applause.
I hope to see more of Gary Whitta's work, writer of The Book of Eli . No one should miss this movie.
