The Book of Eli Trailer #2
If you’re a sucker for all things post-apocalyptic, you’ll be excited to hear that the latest trailer for The Book of Eli starring Denzel Washington has arrived online. Unfortunately, if you’re like me, you may also be disappointed after you watch it. While I didn’t mind the first trailer that was released back in the summer, I have to say that this new trailer feels like a step backward. It does re-use a lot of footage we’ve already seen, but the slightly extended action scenes and dialogue, digital backdrops and lame musical choices are pretty underwhelming.
With The Road coming out later this year, I think post-apocalyptic movies are going to have their work cut out for them if they want to avoid looking seriously inferior from here on in. Granted, The Book of Eli is supposed to be much more action-oriented, and also seems to have some sort of fantastical religious element to it, but most of the fight sequences looked pretty weak to me. Even if Denzel succeeds in saving the world, something tells me he still won’t be able to save this movie. The January release date says it all. The Book of Eli hits theatres on January 15th; check out the trailer after the jump and see what you think.
Comments (9)
Not interested.
It looks like The Road for people who require lots of explosions and slow-mo in their movies.
Posted by Senor G on September 25th, 2009while i doubt this’ll be a classic for the ages, i’d say it’s one of the cases where the trailer is pumped up to appeal to the common denominator, while the movie will probably be quite different… hopefully!
i hope the same thing for the road- the trailer was absolutely horrible.
Posted by tozo on September 25th, 2009p.s. that silhouette fight seems like possibly the most interesting idea since oldboy’s side-scroller fight
Posted by tozo on September 25th, 2009Looks like Fallout the move! That said I’m getting sick of these trailers using the same fucking overblown operatic score. Anyone else agree with me?
Posted by Marc on September 26th, 2009Denzel is old and slow.
Posted by dardar on September 26th, 2009The movie looked super interesting until he tried moving fast.
Looks awesome, looking forward to it. I’m a sucker for anything post-apocalyptic.
Posted by Kasper on September 26th, 2009haha, I can’t wait till Jay goes off on this for everyone being able to “ninja fight” like all movies now a days…it’s going to be awesome. But yeah, the movie looks pretty crappy.
Posted by Justice on September 26th, 2009I´m really excited for this, like the Fallout style
Posted by pcch7 on September 27th, 2009I’ll watch it, just ta see Milla Kunis and Gary Oldman.
Posted by Derek on September 30th, 2009Leave a Reply