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Trust Weighted
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17Trust Points
BrianSez's Review
Summary - OK 2.5
This post-apocalyptic spaghetti western did little more than add a few new twists and modern action to an old and tired theme. Sure, Denzel fit the part really well, and destruction of bad guys always inspires a few hoots from the audience, but really – there wasn’t much original at all except for the overtone of religion as the savior of mankind gone awry.
Acting - OK 2.5
Denzel didn’t really have to act to work well in this role. He just had to look cool and somewhat realistic as he exhibited superhuman bad-guy killing skills. Everyone else seemed to be doing barely more than remembering their lines and following direction.
Male Stars - OK 2.5
Female Stars - OK 2.5
Female Costars - OK 2.5
Male Costars - OK 2.5
Film - OK 2.5
Take an old-fashioned western, apply it to a post-nuclear holocaust world, and some old mad-max style bad guys — and you could have written this film also. Ok, it wasn’t terrible, just relatively unimaginative — well, except for the religious push.
Direction - OK 2.5
Dialogue - OK 2.5
Music - OK 2.5
Visuals - OK 2.5
Edge - Risqué 2.5
A little limb-severing, and blood squirting action.
Sex Titillating 2.5
Violence Fierce 2.5
Rudeness Salty 2.5
Reality - Supernatural 3.1
Circumstantial - Supernatural 3.1
Biological - Supernatural 3.1
Physical - Supernatural 3.1
2 Comments
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BrianSez Jan 18, 2010 4:40PM
I love it when I can save someone some money. And to think the only reason I saw Eli over Sherlock was because we got to the theater 30 minutes early….
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Wick Jan 17, 2010 11:17PM
Regarding BrianSez’s Review
Great review Brian. Entertaining and useful. I was actually thinking of seeing this movie, but I sense that reading your review was more enjoyable than going through the motion of watching the flik itself.