[Deb]

Yes, Eli is a Christian man attempting to protect the last remaining copy of the Bible in a bleak, devastated World. The problem is, the movie is unnecessarily profane, nauseatingly violent and in the end the Bible is placed in a library between the Torah and the Koran.

If you think using Christianity as a plot gimmick and if you appreciate gang rape, hardcore brutality and a numbing overuse of the "F" word, you'll be able to sit thru "The Book of Eli". There was a way to tell this story. This wasn't it.

[newheart]

If you think using Christianity as a plot gimmick and if you appreciate gang rape, hardcore brutality and a numbing overuse of the "F" word, you'll be able to sit thru "The Book of Eli".

I don't think the movie used Christianity as a plot gimmick. This was a remarkable movie about living by faith instead of sight as well as the way that God always preserves his Word regardless of how much man screws up the world. As for the violence and brutality, at times it did feel a little over the top, but there was not much you would not find in the Bible itself. The movie is clearly rated R for violence and language. You can choose not to see it.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you for that evaluation. You sound like you have my kind of sensibilities. Yet another movie I won’t be seeing.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Yes, Eli is a Christian man attempting to protect the last remaining copy of the Bible in a bleak, devastated World.***

Any difference between this and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW in which an atheist is trying to protect a Gutenberg Bible from being burned for heat?