Comments on: The Book of Eli (movie Review)

By: capillary viscometer wiki

capillary viscometer wiki — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:41:26 +0000

Got done watching that movie today after falling asleep on it earlier. I was hoping for something better because people hyped the praise too much.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:56:42 +0000

Killing in self-defense is still killing. The problem with the movie was its inability to suspend disbelief. It had all the mixture of a western, but it mixed in religion with it. A little bit of religion would have been all right, but the movie made the book the central piece for which the fighting was taking place. The fact that Eli acted as a kind of prophet for the mouth of God made this even worse when he himself was doing the killing. Judgment is for God alone, and we do not see in most of the biblical text the prophet also being the warrior. These are two distinct roles, and it saddens me when they are mixed.

By: Mia

Mia — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:59:43 +0000

I totally agree that there was lots of violence in the movie, but I didn’t take it as him killing off anyone that got in his way. Wasn’t the majority of it self-defense or defending innocent bystanders? And as far as protecting the book, yeah, he was a little over the top on that. I wondered the same thing- Isn’t the Bible meant to be shared? But he was living in a time where the earth was back to the beginning- no civilization, no technology, and he was afraid that it would be manipulated in order to gain power over fearful people with few resources.
All in all, I really enjoyed it.