The Book of Eli

OK, my mate at work said this was an awesome film and from the adverts when it was at the pictures it looked like a Iraq type war film. ( i like war films, action etc)
So it came on sky a few weeks ago and i was knacked after work, but wanted to watch it seeing as my mate hyped it up so much. "oh its got a great twist at the end" he tells me.

So ok, 10pm, im half asleep and put it on.

It started off a bit slow, following some bloke eating a cat thats hes just shot with a bow & arrow in an old building.
Im guessing by this stage the war is onging and it about to kick off anytime soon.
erm, no.

The war had already happened! no gun fights, no explosions, no dodgy Iraq'i type blokes getting blown to smithereens.
It was just about this bloke, walking about on a mission. (p.s. hes been walking on this mission for years)

There were a few kick offs with the locals in a town he found, he teamed up with some tart, who followed him on this walking about mission.

Then the story revealed itself, i wont spoil it for those who havnt seen it, ok, i will.
He has the only copy of the bible in the world after the war and some baddy from the local town wants it so that the people will 'follow / worship him or whateva'

oh come on, wheres all the bloodshed? I wanted to see the war, not the 'after the war bit'

Anyways, the baddy tries to catch him, he gets shot and the tart gets taken away with the baddies who now have the bible.
She escapes, goes back to the shot in the chest dude, and they continue their 'walking mission going west.'
(he seems to be ok after being shot)

They eventually get to wherever they needed to get to.
And here comes the mega twist my mate told me about.

wait for it...............

The only copy of the bible in existance (the one that was stolen by the baddies) is in braille language.

The baddy doesnt know braille language so it was useless.

But the guy on the walking mission was blind, he memorised the bible and translated it to a bloke in the place he was walking to that took him 40 years to get to.

What a load of tosh.
2 hours of my life that i will never get back.

Y I Man - look at it this way, you may have wasted 2 hours of your life but look on the bright side - not only have you just saved me from doing the same, but you also saved me from wasting £3 odd as I was going to download this a couple of days ago from the movies on demand thingy on Virgin, I changed my mind at the last second and watched Kick Ass instead
:joeybarton:

The schmuck of Eli was still a film I intended to watch though so good work fella

glad to be of service m8 :606laugh:

Agree with your summary YI. That film is tosh.

Agreed, I hated this film, almost as much as I hated Twilight. It's just such a load of rudey poo. Honestly, I'm getting angry just thinking about it.

It was just the movie business trying to cash in on the Fallout (gaming) experiance. Other films like The Road tried it. Personally I liked them both, probs because i Flip love Fallout