He was not only blind, he was a disciple. When she leaves she becomes the new disciple that will spread the word.

Every line Denzel delivers in this film is amazing. The twist is teased a good bit with little details the viewer won't pick up the first time. Very underrated film in his filmography

The irony of Gary Oldman's character getting the Bible and it being written in braille is so clever. I really enjoyed this movie for the reality of what a post apocalyptic world might look like. The casting and writing were all top notch.

I picked this movie up at Rebox and had ZERO idea what to expect. I didn't even for a second think he was blind the whole time or it would turn into a Bible movie. Love it!

One of my all time favorites! Denzel never fails to deliver

This film is jaw-dropping. A faith driven, graphic and arguous journey for any man even more so a blind one to undertake. Even so, Eli was chosen, thus Eli obeyed.

Oh shit I am so hyped for this one. What I love most about this movie is Carnegie's motivation. I love seeing a film acknowledge how religion can be a tool of evil. While simultaneously showing it can survive through a single book in a world of evil.

The twist is teased so many times throughout the second viewing it’s amazing. You see the whole movie and a whole new light his movements, the way he fights everything.

This is one of my all time favorites. The twist... the wild west motif with the post-apocalyptic. Once again Denzel delivers. If you boys haven't, give Man on Fire a watch. And Gary Oldman... they could have cast ANYONE but the man's chops are unbeatable that no one else could have played this role. And Mila Kunis... wow. She gave her best performance ever. And yo, let's give props to the amount of amazing actors in this. Jennifer Beals as Solara's mother Michael Gambon (Dumbledor) as the cannibal George Tom Waits as the shopkeeper Ray Stevenson as Redridge (the right hand man)

"Wasteland Paladin"! I am SO stealing that! (perfect description) I know this is generally considered a "mid" movie, but I always really liked it! (and not JUST because of the lovely Mila Kunis . . .only MOSTLY! lol)

Also most people ignore the irony that he didn't need the book at all because he has it memorized, and understood. The villain only needed it because he didn't know it and didn't live like a Christian, only needed it for control. Kind of an important lesson of actions vs words.

Great movie. Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman? It's impossible to go wrong there! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This was the best 'Fallout: Stories' movie ever made. I always appreciated the visual homage to The Road Warrior (Mad Max) @8:07 The ending was a nice surprise and I never felt the need to pick at the obvious during a rewatch. I know Gary Oldman played in the Harry Potter movies but the comic relief of Professor Dumbledore and Madame Maxime (George and Martha Washington) was welcome. I would have liked if she had taken several freshly printed bibles with her. He had a mission and completed it. I'm not sure what hers is.

While I still enjoyed the twist of him being blind, my dad and I caught on very early he was blind. When he found the dead guy in the closet, the way he acted and moved kinda of hinted at it. There were some other small hints along the way also. None the less the reveal was still great. Though working with the blind myself, we assume maybe Eli may have been legally blind, but perhaps he could still see light and shadows just enough to work out the world around him. Since the flash from the war caused it. Where as someone who has no eyes wouldn't even see shadows or light or anything. Thus surviving may be even harder.

One of the greatest post apocalyptic action movies ever made!

The fact that he was blind made him even more bad ass

Kudos for y'all catching that he was blind early...one of those movies that if you don't catch it til the end (like most of us) it's fun to go back and rewatch

Criminally UNDERRATED movie

RIP Ray Stevenson (Oldman's main henchman), so sad that he passed away just as he was about to become a household name in Star Wars: Ahsoka. He was fantastic in HBO's mini series 'Rome'. Sleep well big fella.

You two have been watching some absolute bangers lately and we love to see it. Love seeing how much growth you've gone thru with the channel.

And if you pay attention at the little scene at the end when Malcolm McDowell put the Bible on a shelf, you'll see other religious and spiritual books like the Koran etc. So it can mean that other people had the same "calling", and/or that it's not especially a christian-prozelitizing movie because it shows that it's not all about the Bible... I found that movie awesome when it came out, one of the best movies of 2010, and beyond the so-called religious part, an awesome story about power, will to live, purposefulness and hope. The Hughes Brothers also did From Hell ;)

'The Wasteland Paladin' sounds like an awesome title for a book

Yall picked up on it a lot better than i did, i was completely blindsided by it the whole time, thought things were just being done for the sake of making him be a billy badass, was amazing on the second watch

Gary Oldman does play the best villains. For another great one, watch True Romance. It was written by Quentin Tarantino before he was famous and one of my favorites.

28:27 I have a theory. He only got shot cause he gave up the book. He said him self only he touches it. And that he's protected. Giving up the book was an act of not trusting God. Even when he got shot lightning struck like it was disapproval.

I absolutely love this movie. The twist is one of the best I’ve ever seen. I love Denzel Washington and I’m a huge Gary Oldman fan as well, so having them both in a movie together was wonderful. I’m so happy y’all watched this film. It certainly makes you ponder things. Eli fulfilled his mission. He can rest now.

"Thats a terrible haircut, no wonder he did it." 😂

21:26 I love this part of the movie. You think the woman is trying to protect Salara, but what's really going on in her head is "You have got to go cause you are younger and cleaner than me, they will kill me and give you my job"

I saw this film in the theater. It was a good experience. Great reaction bros! 👍🏿

underrated gem right here, love the bleakness of the setting & the soundtrack.

It never occurred to me that Eli was blind. I just thought he somehow learned to red Braille.

Notice how just before the bar fight Eli quoted scripture and the most telling thing in the whole movie was when he shot there was a lightning bolt in the background that showed he was on a mission from God and that was a sign from God. Imagine the amount of faith it would take to spend 36 years on a mission from God. Awesome reaction guys!

Such a good pick, I’m not a religious person but the message is so worth investing time to watch this movie

The way people barely missing him looks like some straight up divine intervention. Perfect accuracy too lol

That is why he says the line, walk by faith, not by sight. Biblical reference like some of the other lines he used here & there.

You guys are obviously very clever. When my gf and I watched this years ago, it was a massive revelation for us that Denzel was blind when we saw the book was braille. Our minds were literally blown and we never expected it. Congratulations on having incredible observational skills, guys. 👍🏻

To watch this for the first time and find out at the end that he's blind literally blew my mind. I then named my son after this movie, Eli

I'm an atheist. And yet I loved this apocalyptic movie . Great style as well as acting and very creative scenes .

Got this on DVD when it got to the ending I was totally shocked my mom was too this was great one of my favorite Denzel films.

Movie recommendation for you to react to: SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009), this movie is excellent, you will enjoy it.

Blew my freaking mind, when you find out he was blind the whole time. Damn I can spit. 😂

yes!! i didnt realize that yall had reacted to this gem of a movie. you guys are awesome! thank you both for all of the entertainment.

This movie is the closest we got to an actual Fallout (game) movie. Loved it. Very overlooked.

You two have some of the funniest reactions to some of the most serious movies 😂😂 it’s great

"Somebody's RAINING!!!" HAHAAHAHAHAH! Never change guys. Never change!

This movie is what spurred my love for Hans Zimmerman's music composition.

Eli is a biblical figure who was a judge and a priest, according to the 'book of Samuel'.

A holy terminator 😂😂😂I lost it great reaction

Glad this won that pole because this is one of my favorite Denzel movies.

A couple of good hints that make him look badass, is like how he doesn't shoot the snipers till they shoot him, or he stares down the second in command, but you realize he didn't shoot the snipers till they fired and he could hear them. Or he may not have known the commander was there.

At which point did you guys realize he was blind? I missed that if it was shown. I noticed you said of the mom, "wait! She is blind TOO?!" and I was like "what do you too? You shouldn't know anyone else is blind at this point!"

You know...as a child of the 80's, the lack of post-apocalyptic movies in current times is interesting and scary. I grew up on them. It felt like there was pne every year.

Thank you for this format, with the source in the corner rather than split portraits with one flipped. This is easier to watch.

Book of Eli to me is very much akin to the Zatoichi films, where a blind swordsman disguised as a nobody gets involved with the petty troubles of a random settlement. Only in this they kind of play on the idea of the possibility of divine protection. You can actually see all the tells of Eli's disability right from the beginning, like when he opened the cabinet and didn't react in seeing the corpse that was inside, and the fact that he can bump into things or wasn't able to read the sign that was right in front of the old couple's home. It's such a well world built movie. Even the scope of the 'flash' nuclear fallout, it had only got into certain radii. Like who knows if there were other places that weren't destroyed by the 'flash'. And I love that they didn't explain it any further.

Denzel is a true role model that everyone should look up to, criminally underrated film

19:37 ......This is a way to sneeze and also exorcise demons.......

Definitely one of my favorite Denzel Washington movies the acting was honestly in my opinion some of his best work, the best part is realizing the Bible is in braille 👏🏾👏🏾 my bf still doesn’t believe he literally playing a blind man in this movie 😂 I mean at first I was wondering why he so accurate tho but, my guess was that he was touched by god in a way leading him he did say “stay on the path” I always felt that was kinda the point he was lead by the hand of god or shielded in a way

"Wasteland Paladin", That's got to be the coolest description I heard, I'm going to use that XD

Carnegie IS NOT stupid. He's trapped and desperate. Carnegie maintains control of his minions with promises of UNNAMED rewards. And those promises are starting to wear thin. Look at Carnegie's interactions with his minions. When the minion comes back with a bag of books, he's very frustrated the bible is not one of them. Because of this, he's not getting the unnamed reward. But then Carnegie gives a small reward, and the minion is ecstatic. Now, look at Carnegie and Redridge (his lieutenant). When they make a deal for the bible, Redridge specifies that the reward will be Solara. He's smart enough to know those unnamed rewards are paltry. Unfortunately for Carnegie, this a post-apocalyptic world with extreme scarcity. There just aren't a whole lot of rewards to be handing out. Throughout history, this situation typically led to pillaging your neighbors to get plunder for your minions. I'm sure Carnegie would do it if he had enough men to be certain of the outcome. So, here's a guy who is running out of rewards to give, and can't pillage his neighbors. Carnegie is persuasive, but he does not inspire people. But, there was something that once inspired people. The Christian bible. Carnegie doesn't want that bible. He NEEDS it. With that bible, he wouldn't need physical force to take over a town. He just needs to parrot the right words from the bible to control the people. And if he's lucky, some of his minions might also be inspired. There are clues in the film suggesting that Carnegie only has a vague understanding of the bible. He knows that the bible inspired people to do great and terrible things, but he seems fixated on getting the right words to inspire (control) people. I won't go into it because I'm trying to get out of the habit of writing KZfaq essays.

“GET THEM!” Is the greatest line in the entire film. 🙏🏻

Watched this in the cinema, the soundtrack blew me away.

That hairless dog at the beginning was adorable

This movie is so good and amazing Denzel played his character so well in this love the video octokrool stay motivated dream big 1 mill on the way

Im not a smart man But a lone wanderer in the wastes is someone probably not to be messed with. There is a reason as to why he is alone. And alive

I was literally looking for this reaction from you guys a couple nights ago

Funny thing I noticed, is that the sanctuary at the end already had a copy of the Torah. So as soon as he started reciting Genesis, the guy could have said "hold up, let's skip forward" or "whoops i guess we already have this one" Also George the cannibal is Dumbledore

It was really funny, "what book is he looking for" the movie is called THE BOOK OF ELI

So glad you got to watch this movie!

"I didn't see the sign" He aint lying. =)

"Right in the frank and beans"...I'm dead! 😆😆😆

Wasteland Paladin , best description I’ve hear yet for this character, Bravo

The one plot point in this film that REALLY bothers me is that the book being in braille shouldn't matter to the main antagonist. There are only 26 letters in the alphabet, you could use inference to translate the braille into the regular alphabet relatively simply, especially if you had nothing else to focus your time on. First you identify vowels using one letter words like "I" or "A", then move on to two letter words like "To" or "Is" to lock in vowels /and/ consonants, and slowly work forwards. A smart person could easily crack it in within a waking day.

Hav to say if you know what a braille bible actually looks like, you have to roll your eyes at the end of the movie. My university had a braille bible in the library - it was SEVERAL bible sized books that took up two shelves 🤣🤣🤣

Wow that's pretty good figuring out the twist well beforehand.

Hey that's my name don't where it out lol 😆 love you guys keep up with the good work! 🎉

Brilliant part: Yeah he only shot after he was shot at to hear the direction, and he did not notice the gun pointing at him without firing until it was too late when it all quited down. His expression looked like a moment of doubt like "did I do something wrong? am i no longer protected?" He swung the blades around without even looking at his opponents' direction, when one-on-one he hesitates then swings wide in the general direction until he gets a grip on the chainsaw guy right in front of him. Not making sense part: Yeah Gary Oldman's character could've easily just made stuff up and pretended he had a book or Devine guidance; the young generation can't read and never even heard of a Bible or a prayer before, and the old generation who knows would be too scared of his goons to challenge him over it.

The thing that got me with this movie is that Gary Oldman wanted the Bible to dominate over people so when he got injured, although his wound was minor (compared to Eli's wound), it festered. Solara"s mom told him she could smell it rotting. That's because he was evil. Eli's wound was in the stomach. That kind of wound gets infected fast, is very painful, and kills you very slowly but Eli cleaned it with the KFC wipes and it healed. They both had faith in the Bible but Gary Oldman was punished for trying to use it for evil.

One of my top 5 favourite films of all time!

I totally forgot about this movie!! Great reaction guys!!

I love how in the end the Bible is just put on a shelf.

Wow, The Book of Eli! Haven't seen this one in a long time. May I suggest another great Denzel Washington movie that everyone has forgotten about? Flight.

the only rule of a post-apocalyptic world: you don't f'k with lone wanderers...

"Just start a cult!" Technically that's what he was trying to do.

The cannibal couple also played Professor Dumbledore & Madame Maxine in the Harry Potter series.

"Martha's sweeeet!" Me: "giggles"

Love the video guys keep them coming.i love this movie so much i named my son Eli.😂

Also, from what I realized, he follows the sun, meaning the sun always rises in the East and sets in the West.

Me and girl F'ing love your videos pls continue to be yourselves and thank you for the content and reactions.

17:25 - You sound like the moaning doors in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 😂

That dog was adorable

I was able to catch on that he had vision problems when he opened the lighter and waved his hand across to make sure it was lit

No way chubby rain himself!!!! The guy my mom is always talking about haha

I could have gone for a sequel with her heading back.

Love this movie! ❤ one of my favorite!

The Little Things with Denzel is awesome. Give a hug to the cute doggy.

Aww you guys have a pug?! I do too. Mines called Pugsley

YES! My favorite people & my favorite movie! Finally. & 3:30 is why. “I’m assuming the worlds not in a good place” Very next scene “yup worlds gone to 💩”

The ending had me surprised this dude was blind the whole time and we didn't know. Well I didn't

Love youre reactions. Like youre first time watching most.

This is another Denzil Washington masterpiece!