A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Really, it's just another prophet-in-the-wilderness tale -- not nearly as bad as those trailers would suggest, yet neither will your soul run any risk of enlightenment.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
15 Jan 2010
rotten:
I'm not going to give it away, but there's a final plot twist in this movie that is beyond absurd.
– A.O. Scott,
At the Movies,
19 Jan 2010
rotten:
Washington doesn't look as if he's having much fun, and who can blame him?
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
22 Jan 2010
rotten:
t's a post-apocalyptic western, it's an evangelical tract, it's a road movie, it's a martial arts movie, it's a disaster movie, it's a graphic novel. It's equal parts The Road and The Robe, A Fistful of Dollars and Fist of Fury. It's Mad Max meets Left Be
– Jonathan F. Richards,
Film.com,
2 Mar 2010
fresh:
The Hughes brothers' film feels more vibrant than the bleak Road, which was launched at us in November. Here the brothers show us the horror but somehow the staid and calm Denzel feels more approachable than the distraught and scrambling Viggo.