A bounty hunter Milo discovers that his up coming target is really his ex-wife Nicole, a reporter doing work on a murder cover-up. He believes all that is down the track is an quick payday, but while Nicole gives him the slip so that she will be able to pursue a lead in a killing cover-up, Milo finds out that absolutely nothing ever turns out simple with himself and Nicole.
“Set in the near future as synthetic internal organs may be bought on credit, it tells of a man that battles in order to make the repayments on a heart he has bought. He has to for that reason go on the run before stated heart is taken back.
Rated R for for strong bloody violence, grisly images, language and some sexuality/nudity.
Tagline: Consider them your final notice.
Trivia: Moments before the filming of the Chinatown scene a crew member was approached by a local Chinese person who pointed out to him that all the neon signs with Chinese characters were upside down. A frantic rigging crew proceeded to flip all the signs while the shooting crew shot in the direction of the newly flipped signs.
“Eli (Denzel Washington) has been on a journey for 30 years, walking west across America after a cataclysmic war that turned the earth into a total wasteland. The world has become a lawless civilization where people must kill or be killed. The barren roads belong to gangs of cutthroats who rob and kill for water, a pair of shoes, a lighter, or just for fun. Eli is a peaceful man who only acts in self defense, and becomes a warrior with unbelievable killing skills when he is challenged. After the war and the “Huge Flash”, Eli was guided by a higher power to a hidden book and given the task of protecting the book and taking it to its final destination. Eli guards the book with his life, because he knows that the book is the only hope that humanity has for its future.”
Genre: Action , Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi , Thriller , Western
IMDB: 7.3/10
MPAA:
Rated R for some brutal violence and language.
Tagline: Some will kill to have it. He will kill to protect it.
Trivia: The tenth film released in select D-BOX enabled cinemas, located in the US and Canada. In D-BOX’s words, the motion control technology “adds to the movie’s plot and underlying themes of dread, terror and explosive action by offering realistic sensations during most of the film’s action scenes.”