Do not watch The Book of Eli!
I had intended to go watch Avatar 3D in Imax, Up in the Air or Fantastic Mr. Fox, but all three were sold out despite having been out for weeks. I opted instead to watch The Book of Eli which still had openings on opening night. I should have taken that as a sign!
I have extremely eclectic tastes and rarely write negative movie reviews, but in this case I had to. I had actually read favorable reviews of the movie with interesting comparisons to The Road Warrior. However, I hated this movie. It’s self indulgent, bleak and painfully slow. I just could not help feeling that it had all been done before in a much more entertaining form!
Avoid it at all costs. It makes Daybreakers which is an ok B movie with an interesting premise and a good first hour look like a multiple Oscar contender!
Comments (11)
thanks for the heads up. was debating on seeing it this weekend.
Dam… I wanted to see it too. It's on my Netflix Queue. Still haven't seen Avatar either. That's def first on the list.
aah too late…should have told me on friday :-)…….up in the air is fantastic though……
Thanks for the heads up :)
I did not think so highly of Daybreakers, though.
I agree – it was brutal to watch (and a waste of Washington's and Oldman's talent). Its a bad mash-up of I Am Legend, 300, and Mad Max.
I hear Avatar is "the most one-dimensional movie of the 21st century", but there's plenty of time to fix that…
I did not think highly of Daybreakers. It’s a mediocre movie – it just does a passable job at being what it’s supposed to be: a B movie. It’s just that The Book of Eli makes even a mediocre movie look like a masterpiece!
I would recommend most people to skip Daybreakers as well. Up in the Air, Avatar, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Hurt Locker are seemingly significantly better!
Hi Fabrice
It is funny to have your review about this movie today as I have just watched a trailer of it from yahoo!France a few hours ago.
You confirmed what I felt myself from the trailer, this movie seems very boring.
Now I am sure I will avoid it.
Nothing much to add.in London last nite had a glimpse of it but ooops its should be voted the most boring ever….thanks fab
Hello, Fabrice! I never write negative reviews neither but the same happened to me with Avatar. I thought it was one of the most overrated movies of all time!
I wrote a post on my blog about that and it’s funny how 50% of the people LOVE it and the other half HATE it. There is no middle ground…
I take note about The book of Eli. You lower your expectations on Avatar… :)
I definitely agree that lower expectations are a recipe for enjoying movies more. I will keep my expectations in check for Avatar.