The Book of Eli (2010)
Denzel Washington stars in a post apocalyptic film about a guy carrying the bible across a United States that is now largely a wasteland. There is plenty that is familiar to the genre with shortages of resources and people generally not being very nice to each other. Performances from the cast are good and the direction is acceptable as well, there is also a nice twist in the end of the film.
The problem I have with this film is it's theme of religion/faith. Presumably this is supposed to be a pro faith film but there seems to be little to suggest the positive sides to it if there are any. We have a bad guy who wants to use religion as a means to control people and build up his empire which is fairly common and religion was blamed for the war which caused the apocalypse which is again not uncommon so the bad side is fairly well represented. On the good side we have that the lead character's faith gives him strength to carry on walking around with his book for 30 years but to what end? With out plunging horribly into spoiler land the plot resolution seems to offer little reason for having saved the last remaining bible and little hope for improvement in the future of the world really.
I give this a 3/5 due to it's confused message.
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