Reviews: "Edge of Darkness" / "Book of Eli"
I take a look at Mel's onscreen comeback "Edge of Darkness," plus "The Book of Eli." Note on "Book of Eli." I wonder if Asylum's Faith Films division will look at "Book of Eli" and incorporate power tools, machetes, and buckets of gore into their next film.
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Hey brad, am I first?
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I too was incredulous about the twist at the end of "Book of Eli", but honestly, if you want an explanation for clarification about it's plausibility, the answer is "It's a miracle." Really, literally, that's it. It is, after all, a Christian-themed movie, and they allude to the possibility of miraculous power a couple of times before th reval.
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this is exactly what i wanted to watch this morning, thanks brad. yeah malcom mc dowells cameo was pretty fuckin cool. did you see de niro in everybodys fine? it surprisingly was pretty good.
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Yeah I really got to see both of this movies. Edge of Darkness just to see Mel Gibson on the silver screen again, seeing I grew up with movies like Mad Max and Lethal Weapon I really missed the guy. Also Book of Eli looks pretty bad ass with machete wielding Denzel and to see hot Mila Kunis, a really overrated actress of Hollywood.
Also I really don't mind Brad when you stutter on your reviews, that shows it's your honest opinion and you'd loose some time from your other projects if you started scripting to much your reviews. I prefer your raw opinion.
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Your comment about being entertained by a movie yet completely forgetting about it... I have that with the HARRY POTTER movies.
I watch them. I enjoy them but I barely remember one from the other.
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The LOST premiere was epicness.
A long-standing complaint about the show has always been that all the cast names are put up during the beginning of the show, so you always know exactly who is going to show up in the episode.
That was especially irritating on the premiere, because we'd heard the rumours of who was coming back and I would have liked to have been surprised. And it's very difficult to not read writing that takes up a quarter of the screen.
Still, it was cool to see the great Hiroyuki Sanada show up. That guy is an awesome actor.
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Love the tie. Makes you look as though you just came through a timewarp from the 1980's. Was half expecting you to tells up how cool watching music videos on MTV were, or to be drinking a boxed wine cooler, or to be telling us how good an actor Eddie Murphy was, or telling us how great Miami Vice was. Ha! Love you man.
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Mel Gibson should have retired after 'Lethal Weapon 4'...
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Mel Gibson should have done Lethal Weapon 5 instead of Edge Of Darkness... I mean you won't play a nothing to lose kinda guy in Shane Black's Lethal Weapon 5 'cos you're so loyal to Richard Donner, but you will play a nothing to lose kinda guy in some "revenge mystery thriller" that apparently is pretty forgettable and that not that many people wanted to see any way.
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Brad invented the piano key necktie, he invented it! What have you done, Mel? You've done nothing!
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I'll give those two movies a rental!
Hey Brad, have you ever watch Fringe? It's not like Lost I think, but has some very cool twisty sci-fi-type science! Please give it a watch on FOX, and/or buy the first season on DVD!
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Thanks for the video.
I appreciate all the content you put up on your site.
I liked hearing your take on both films. I saw the Book of Eli and apart from the last few minutes, it kicked all kinds of ass. Honestly, I wanted to immediately go back and watch it again. Just to see how the story holds up once I know the 'twist'.
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Hey Brad, if you are a big Ray Winstone fan then I recommend you look for a film titled "Scum" (1981). Alan Clarke directed the movie which is about the atrocities committed in a british borstral system. It makes you sad and depressed but it deserves your attention. Thanks and keep the updates coming!
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"Book of Eli" was terrible beyond belief, on the level of the Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer movie parodies. They should have called it "Battlefield Earth II: The Passion of Denzel Washington." Blatant religious propaganda, lousy screenplay, enormous plot holes (what exactly were those "voices" he was hearing?), blatant product plugs (in some cases they're so blatant the logos envelop the entire screen), and perhaps the single stupidest ending I've seen in a film since "Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy." On the plus side, however, that is one boss piano-key tie...
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"The Book of Eli" was a a lot of fun, It almost reminded me of "The Road Warrior".
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I am totally with you on this season of 24. The sub-plot is completely unwatchable. The only solace I can find is, knowing the history of 24, Mr. White Trash is bound to catch a bullet with his face sooner than later.
Also, I agree with LucasChad about Fringe. That show is worth watching simply for John Noble, who is fantastic in it.
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I was figuring that, if Mel Gibson was to ever appear in a regular Hollywood movie again, he would pick something low-key and similar to the movies he made in the past. So it would have to be a cop movie with some sort of revenge element (because every Gibson picture has some level of revenge to it) where the guy pulls a Max Rockatansky/Martin Riggs and goes beyond the law to get the slimeballs who ruined his life. So yeah, he didn't disappoint, which means the next movie is 'Lethal Weapon 5: We're All Too Old For This Shit.'
It's no crime for a movie to be good yet forgettable; many films are like that, and we used to have a studio that just made those sorts of pictures (Monogram), and most of their movies were under 70 minutes long so they could have double bills. Now we have mediocre 2 hour movies because the theater chains (except for the art house people) do more biz on concessions the longer the movie is, and 90-120 min. films are easier to sell to cable.
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24 might be so horrible because one of the former executive producers on Star Trek: Voyager is now in charge. The same guy, I believe, who wrote Threshold, the single worst episode of that show (arguably of all Trek).
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I didn't like the book of Eli all that much. I don't know when I was watching it, it just didn't grab me. And the surprise with the book just annoyed me. I'm just like he did all of THAT while he was... Also when those people are being attack he is so willing to turn the other cheek but other times he goes back to save them? I'll admit the action scenes were pretty good, but in my opinion the movie was below average. It just made me want to play Fallout 3. <.< Because i don't have 1 or 2.
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Brad, that tie is TERRIBLE!
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I think he's trying to reach an Alan cummings level of gay.
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I went and saw "Edge of Darkness" too and that sucked almost as bad as "Eli" did. Went in expecting a bloody, gory revenge movie and was instead treated to wannabe John Grisham crap. And I didn't buy any of it for a second - Mel Gibson (who I don't like, personally) watches his daughter get pumped full of lead three feet away and just goes into work the next day looking rather sullen. Gimme a break! Nor does he enquire why his daughter suddenly got really sick moments before she was shot, so it takes him half the movie to figure out what the audience basically already knows - that foul play is afoot! Not to mention he does the shittiest Boston accent ever, and when he finally does get revenge at the end, it's incredibly anticlimactic. And why was it called 'Edge of Darkness?" Besides that, the nachos were undercooked and tasted like corn chips, the Coke was practically water, $2.50 in change fell out of my pocket when I sat down in the seat and I spilled some nacho cheese on my pants trying to find it, the screen was too small, and the first half of the film was projected in the wrong aspect ratio (!). I hate to be negative, but I must say so far in 2010 I've been very unimpressed as far as movies go.
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"This week on 24. Special Agent Jack Bauer screams, 'NO!'"
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Now that i´ve seen all your videos i´m ready to make a request. Could you PLEASE do a review of 3 DEV ADAM? or any of El santo movies if you like? C´mon, this is serious!!
really like your stuff, keep going.
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