The Book of Eli, yet another apocalyptic fantasy, suggests that Denzel Washington has become America’s dullest actor.This old news is confirmed by the fact that he also produced The Book of Eli, which was written and directed by twin brothers Allen and Albert Hughes, the scurrilous team whose Menace II Society and American Pimp proved they shared Denzel’s taste for kitsch.These perpetual hip-hop adolescents cater to Denzel’s inner brat by providing him with a Mad Max role: Eli is a traveler, a “walker” strolling with an armlength phallic blade and bad-ass attitude (super powers to geeks like the Hughes) through a devastated, monochrome landscape full of marauders and cannibals.
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