Mel Gibson has been all over the news lately and the court of public opinion has thrown him under the bus. Mind you most of it happened without any authenticity whatsoever. It was reported, thus it must be true. This is a dangerous precedent in that we now see with our own eyes how little the truth means to anybody. Recent evidence has surfaced from reputable sources that the tapes in question are fake. Signs of profession tampering exist to such an extent that the entire endeavour must be questioned for it's veracity. A bitter custody battle is going on between these two and I have personally seen some evil shit that people do to one another who once loved each other. Charges of sex abuse, drug abuse, alcoholism and a potpourri of the most vile things human beings could throw are levied against each other. So why these two would be any different is beyond me. She was a gold digger. No question about it. Poor Mel fell for the wrong girl. Who of us haven't? The stories I could tell about ex-girlfriends are their own brand of horrifying. Is Mel a racist, misogynist bastard? Maybe. But we can't go by these tapes that may have damaged his career beyond repair. I for one hope not as I still like him as an actor. I don't avoid Tom Cruise movies because he's crazy or Russel Crowe movies because he's an asshole or even Roman Polanski movies for being a pedophile. You learn to separate fact and fiction. Too bad the rest of us can't.
The Book Of Eli is easily one of the best movies of the year. All the good movies came out by February this year like Edge of Darkness (go Mel), Hot Tub Time Machine and Shutter Island. Now out on DVD comes this fantastic apocalyptic future where the sun burns everything dry decades in the future. A war has come and gone, reducing the populace to dusty survivors barely getting by. Eli is a Walker, a man with a mission to go west as told to him by God. Along the way he encounters deadly scavengers, an opressive enviroment and eventually a lone town run by Carnegie (Gary Oldman), a man desperate for a Bible, which is exactly what Eli posesses. As Carnegie scemes to get the book form Eli at any cost possible, Solara (the uber-hot Mila Kunis) aides him on his quest West.
The movie is well shot, the landscape desolate and barren. The Hughes Brothers' first film in nine years (From Hell was their last movie) is a masterpiece. The underlying theme of how the Bible is used for both good and evil was really well done and not done in such a way to beat the message into your skull with a hammer.
A great great ending makes this film a must see, especially for fans of the Road Warrior (go Mel).
4 and 1/2 stars out of 5
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