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.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Allen Hughes , Albert Hughes -
Producer -
Joel Silver , Denzel Washington , Broderick Johnson , Andrew A. Kosove , David Valdes -
Screenwriter -
Gary Whitta -
Distributor -
Warner Bros. Pictures -
Production Co -
Silver Pictures -
Rating -
R (Some Brutal Violence|Language) -
Genre -
Adventure , Action , Drama -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Jan 15, 2010, Wide -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Feb 15, 2014 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$94.8M -
Runtime -
1h 52m -
Sound Mix -
SDDS , Dolby Digital , DTS
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