Rating - 2.75/5 Spoilers - Not really Highlights - Denzel's acting and the setup of action scenes. I think - Do not watch unless you don't have anything to do. Comment - Can watch because some people liked it a lot.
As many others have said, the trailers suggested it to be an action-pack movie but you will be looking for more. The main plot around which the movie revolves is that Denzel has to protect a book and take it towards west to a place where the book actually belongs (in the right hands). Why the book?? Because - After the war, humanity has almost come to an end and only this book can lead the civilization to rise again.
The movie started with a scene in the woods where an animal (don't know the name) was sniffing around a dead body and then it suddenly hears a movement at a distance and before it could find out, an arrow comes and pierce it dead. Denzel enters here. A nicely shot scene and the movie promised of good action.
But from here the movie shows Denzel walking along the high-ways of a post-war world, reaching a torn-down house, finding a dead man hanging. He takes the shoes on the dead's feet. He stays the night there, reading the book , listening to music and dozing off. I was almost asleep by the end of this scene. First of all it totally took away from the first scene and it was too long to be shown to the viewers.
Then he walks along further and ruthlessly kills everyone who tries to snatch away his back-pack in which he has kept the book. Everyone is saying that he is the good guy but he can kill when the book is being attacked. Why does he have to kill and that too so ruthlessly? He has been shown as a super-skilled fighter who can defeat (read kill) anybody. I mean he could just hit them down and then escape. No, but he has to chop hands, slice throats and everything. Anyway I am getting too emotional here.
So he goes along protecting the book and reaches a small town where he finds another guy who is in search of this book. He believes that with the words of this book, he can control the town and rule even more. When he finds out that Denzel has the book, a war starts between his men and Denzel which continues into 3-4 different scenes and finally with the help of another girl (She was just a placeholder) form that town he manages to reach the place where the book should belong.
The movie looks hypothetical from start to end and then they have to do a revelation at the end which totally blows off the little bit sense left in the movie. All scenes could have been edited to be more crisp and compact. But then it would have become a 30 minutes short film.
Although the action scenes were less than expected and were totally too much hyped, they were picturized nicely with good effects. Nothing else that I could find good about the movie. And yes, Denzel lived his role pretty well too.
As many others have said, the trailers suggested it to be an action-pack movie but you will be looking for more. The main plot around which the movie revolves is that Denzel has to protect a book and take it towards west to a place where the book actually belongs (in the right hands). Why the book?? Because - After the war, humanity has almost come to an end and only this book can lead the civilization to rise again.
The movie started with a scene in the woods where an animal (don't know the name) was sniffing around a dead body and then it suddenly hears a movement at a distance and before it could find out, an arrow comes and pierce it dead. Denzel enters here. A nicely shot scene and the movie promised of good action.
But from here the movie shows Denzel walking along the high-ways of a post-war world, reaching a torn-down house, finding a dead man hanging. He takes the shoes on the dead's feet. He stays the night there, reading the book , listening to music and dozing off. I was almost asleep by the end of this scene. First of all it totally took away from the first scene and it was too long to be shown to the viewers.
Then he walks along further and ruthlessly kills everyone who tries to snatch away his back-pack in which he has kept the book. Everyone is saying that he is the good guy but he can kill when the book is being attacked. Why does he have to kill and that too so ruthlessly? He has been shown as a super-skilled fighter who can defeat (read kill) anybody. I mean he could just hit them down and then escape. No, but he has to chop hands, slice throats and everything. Anyway I am getting too emotional here.
So he goes along protecting the book and reaches a small town where he finds another guy who is in search of this book. He believes that with the words of this book, he can control the town and rule even more. When he finds out that Denzel has the book, a war starts between his men and Denzel which continues into 3-4 different scenes and finally with the help of another girl (She was just a placeholder) form that town he manages to reach the place where the book should belong.
The movie looks hypothetical from start to end and then they have to do a revelation at the end which totally blows off the little bit sense left in the movie. All scenes could have been edited to be more crisp and compact. But then it would have become a 30 minutes short film.
Although the action scenes were less than expected and were totally too much hyped, they were picturized nicely with good effects. Nothing else that I could find good about the movie. And yes, Denzel lived his role pretty well too.
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