Showing posts with label Evan Jones. Show all posts
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Saturday, 3 October 2020

The Book of Eli (2010)



A lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

Stylish and entertaining post-apocalyptic drama plays out like a spaghetti Western with Washington as the taciturn hero and Oldman as the sophisticated villain; big let-down when it's revealed what the "sacred book" is...

Maltin**1/2: "Washington does his best Clint Eastwood in this violent but entertaining postapocalyptic tale...Taking the "end of days" genre and wrapping it in the guise of a Sergio Leone spaghetti Western, the Hughes brothers create a lurid guilty pleasure, with a "message" thrown in for good measure."

Friday, 28 April 2017

Mirrors 2 (2010)



When a young man, who is recovering from a traumatic accident, takes a job as a nighttime security guard, he begins to see visions of a young mysterious woman in the store's mirror.

More straightforward (and simpler) plot than the first installment effectively sets the supernatural in service of a crime mystery.