Allen and Albert Hughes direct the screen version of Gary Whitta's novel about a Christian black man wandering a post-apocalyptic America with purportedly the last copy of the Bible in his hands. Denzel Washington plays Eli with a sort of cool hand Luke attitude as he crosses America just ahead of the evil Carnegie (the always great Gary Oldman) accompanied off and on by Solara (Mila Kunis), a lass he rescues from bandits. While an excellent study of one man's journey to his destiny - at Alcatraz of all places - the marriage of Mad Max-like scenes with spirituality doesn't feel genuine. America - post-apocalyptic or not - is hardly the place we're going find a latter-day saint.
My rating 4 out of 10.
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