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worthwhile experience, at least one time around, but it's mostly memorable for its little treasuresby Christopher Null [Filmcritic.com ]
too laborious for an action film and too brutal to be an inspirational taleby Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
The movie is essentially a Western, with old-fashioned shootouts and barroom brawls interrupted by telling details of a global disasteby John Hartl [Seattle Times ]
The Book of Eli is like a movie based on a graphic novel you don't want to read.Review rate : D by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]
sober and derivative movieReview rate : B- by Gary Thompson [Philadelphia Daily News ]
doesn't quite achieve the greatness to which it so clearly aspiresby Calvin Wilson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]
"The Book of Eli" plays out like the film version of a great graphic novel that no one ever got around to writing.by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]
"The Book of Eli" lands somewhere between "The Postman" (civilization needs ritual) and "Fahrenheit 451" (literacy saves humanity)by Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News ]
"The Book of Eli" is a weighty tome, bound with the sort of smug nostalgia usually reserved for Allstate commercialsby Graham Killeen [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ]
"The Book of Eli" can't quite decide if it wants to be "The Road" or "The Road Warrior."by Jeff Vice [Deseret News ]