LITE 96

In a post apocalyptic world, a man named Eli (Denzel Washington) has been walking across the wasteland the world has become because a voice told him shortly after the mass destruction by war and extreme global warming to 'go west young man, go west'. He's been hearing that voice for 30 years now and walking west never seeming to reach the west coast of America.
No I'm not making this up.
I'd love to confide in you something even wilder about Eli and his quest but that would spoil the film's big surprise ending. Eli is carrying a book which we soon discover is the last Bible on Earth. How Eli knows it's the very last one is anybody's guess.
Now Eli isn't the only one who knows about the Bible. A guy named Carnegie (Gary Oldman) who rules a lawless town wants it desperately because he believes it will give him the power to subdue all remaining human beings. Actually he's not doing such a bad job with guns and goons with guns.
Before Eli stumbles into Dodge (that's not the actual name of the town but you get the point) The Book of Eli plays out like Mad Max without humor but with a lot more violence. When he gets to Dodge The Book of Eli becomes any western flick you'd care to mention. Gary wants that Bible and will do anything to get it.
Eli wants to protect the Bible and will do anything to keep it from Gary. It all gets more personal when Gary's step daughter Solara (Mila Kunis) who is one of the ladies-of-leisure at the local saloon runs off with Eli.
Don't worry, they don't have sex. Eli is far too saintly for that.
For a girl raised in the bedrooms of a barroom, little Solara sure knows how to handle an Uzi and drive one of the last tanks on Earth but that's not the most hilarious thing waiting for you in the last third of the film.
To be fair, Eli is raking in the dough so I may be way, way out to lunch. Let me know but not until you've watched the last 15 minutes of the film which makes most of what happened earlier not just improbable but impossible.