It is the post-apocalypse, and everybody is killing each other for shoes.
Again.
So, Denzel Washington has what appears to be the last Bible on Earth, and is
travelling west to take it somewhere or other.
Gary Oldman is a evil psycho (surprise!) who runs a little town, and is
obsessed with getting himself a Bible, because he believes that he'll be able
to use it to inspire and thus control people. Denzel Washington doesn't want
that to happen. Conflict ensues.
It's a pretty cliched film, all told, basically a "single good man against band
of evil men" western, transferred to a postnuclear apocalypse where the sun's
so bright everyone's wearing goggles and sunglasses, and looking quite
cyberpunk. (The future, it seems, really is so bright that they've got to wear
shades.)
Having said that, Denzel Washington's cool and scary, Gary Oldman's crazy
scary, and the supporting cast do a good job. It's well shot, looks really
good, and the script's not bad.
Certainly passes the time, and it's way more entertaining than The Road was.
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