1. remarkably straightforward but appropriately quirky
2. With riveting action that never stops, The Book of Eli gets the year off to a spectacularly exciting start at the movies and should keep turnstiles turning.
3. A stylish, gritty fantasy feature that wrestles with the agonies, joys and eternal wrinkles of faith and evil and the dangerous minuet they do.
4. Allen and Albert Hughes have created a plausible post-apocalyptic world.
5. Washington, ever potent, brings to the role the full force of his thousand-mile stare and regenerative smile.
6. Who better than Denzel to play a saint in a sinful world, a man who retains this saintliness even after he's sliced up several dozen rapists and cannibals?
7. The Book of Eli is The Road with twice the plot, four times the ammunition, and half the brains; it'll probably make 10 times the money.
8. Eli is nothing less than a prophet-superman on a divine mission, and while he naturally saves the word of God and, thus, humanity at large, he's powerless to salvage the film from its derivativeness.
9. The people who made the movie. They weren't carrying the fire, were they? / No. Unless they were carrying the old Twilight Zone fire.
10. Not even an actor with Washington's gravitas can keep eyes from rolling at the silliness dished here.

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It's certainly uneven, and many viewers will find that its reach exceeds its grasp, but The Book of Eli finds the Hughes brothers injecting some fresh stylish fun into the kind of post-apocalyptic wasteland filmgoers have seen more than enough of lately.