I went to see The Book of Eli because seeing Denzel Washington shoot stuff and Gary Oldman be evil are almost always satisfying experiences. Eli (Washington) is travelling through a post-apocalyptic world caused by a nuclear war, where things have pretty much broken all the way down, but he comes on a town where a guy named Carnegie (Oldman) has used a source of clean water and a lot of ruthlessness to impose some order, though not really very much civilization. Think Mad Max 3, but without Tina Turner, or a midget.
Carnegie wants to expand his empire, and to do this he's decided he needs a Bible, but they were largely destroyed after the war. When Eli teaches a girl who was born after the war to pray, he realizes Eli has one, and all the mayhem I wanted ensues.
The movie ends with a nifty twist, too, but it doesn't make it worth seeing if you aren't interested in all the violence in the first place. (Bonus for fans of Heroes: cameo by Linderman.)
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