He everybody Mad Max is a blind guy! Following in the footsteps of "Mad Max", "The Road Warrior", and "Thunderdome", this movie is about a bleak future where people are all on a road in the hot sun trying to kill one another. Who comes up with these ideas anyway? And why does humanity always have to be reduced to living in a desert and driving beat up old trucks and cars?
Rather than question the false reality of the situation, I just went along with the film's premise and it worked. It's not a good film, but as an action thriller it's passable. Denzel Washington delivers, as always, like a bad ass avenging angel with big knife! He plays Eli, a loner, who is trying to get to the West coast to bring a book to the last known vestiges of "civilization". Along the way he runs into a ruthless leader Carnegie(Gary Oldman), who admires Eli's fighting skills and wants to enlist his help. Eli turns him down, and when Carnegie discovers Eli has a book which he himself has been looking, then things get down right ugly.
If you want to enjoy this one, you have to suspend belief. It is a total rip off of the old "Road Warrior" movies by George Miller but far less engaging or even amusing. The best part of the movie is the actors fleshing these roles out of a crappy script. Mila Kunis looks extremely hot as always and Oldman is at his best playing a villain. Denzel is a one bad dude and the movie works if you forget how poorly everything else doesn't work. However I can't recommend you queue this one. Wait for it on cable/directtv/dish.
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