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The Book of Eli (2010)
Average movie full of religious BS
Not much to say about this movie really. It's average in every respect. cinematography is cartoonish, though not too distracting. The acting is okay. Denzel plays the same role he always plays and is what carries the entire film. Without him this would be a complete disaster. Though I imagine it could make a passable comedy if they replaced Denzel with Jim Carrey. I can just picture him do the all the sword fighting. Perhaps this is something for a sequel? Anyhow...
Continuing with the review, not much character development - a weak attempt is made to show the development of a young girl who follows Denzel around, but neither she nor the script can quite pull it off.
The soundtrack is standard industry fare, though thankfully not too melodramatic or over the top.
The plot seems realistic enough: a few years after an apocalypse and after the civilized world is rebooted, religious people can hardly wait to start murdering each other over a book, again.
All in a very cool and poetic way of course.
Decent to watch if you're on an air plane or such, otherwise avoid.
The Death of Yugoslavia (1995)
A fantastic documentary
If you are interested in the Balkan wars, then this documentary is a must. I still cannot believe that they actually managed to talk to the people who were the lead characters of these events. It is absolutely unique to hear every one of them speak about it, share their story and be filmed while doing it. Not many a documentary has managed this kind of scope and well spent effort.
Clearly, there will be truths hidden that the interviewees did not want to speak about, but one should not expect miracles. Even so, this is a genuinely fascinating documentary that anyone, who is interested in this region's history, should see.
A word of caution though, there appear to be a number of people on this board, disagreeing, denying and generally dissatisfied about any film that shows the conflict as it really was and, hence, shows Serbs in a less than a positive light.
Pay no attention, even to this day, there are people in Austria and Germany who deny the atrocities of WWII; most of these people can hardly be helped by a documentary.