To get the quibble out of the way, I didn’t buy the big reveal about Eli in the end. I won’t go into spoiler territory, but I thought it was too clever by half, and unnecessary. But I can let that slide.

What I can’t accept is the premise that there are no Bibles to be had anywhere. The movie suggests that after society collapsed, there was some sort of reaction against religion, or at least that people were too concerned with survival to worry about literacy. But it’s a basic fact of human nature that a crisis will make people more likely to seek meaning, and religion is the primary vector for that. The Christian religion and the Bible would be the *last* thing that would be lost. Not to mention that the Bible ubiquitous – I can’t believe that every copy has suddenly vanished or been destroyed. It’s flatly implausible, and no suspension of disbelief can cover it.

Unless you’re Hollywood liberal, of course. My other major problem with the film is that it’s making a statement about faith, but faith seems to be an end in itself. It’s not directed toward anything. The people involved with this movie like spirituality, but not religion. They just don’t seem to know how to ’seal the deal’ with regards to Eli’s faith journey. It’s oddly sterile. There’s no sense that the Bible is uniquely worth preserving. I get the sense that the movie could just as well have been made with the collected works of Shakespeare as the macguffin. The movie is trying to make a statement about faith, but they ’still haven’t found what they’re looking for.’

The only part of the movie I didn’t like was the ending with Mila Kunis.

SPOILER ALERT

I understand the idea that she has been converted and thus is going out to spread the Good Word, but the fact that she did so by pretending to be a new Eli was wholly unbelievable. They tried to make her appear savvy and resourceful when she escaped her captors, but I never bought it. I actually laughed a little in the theater.