A Revelation

Denzel Washington is my favourite actor. I could talk about him and his films all day (honestly, I could). If you take Dolph 'Missionary Man' Lundgren out of the equation, no one carries off the Bible in one hand, sawn-off shotgun in the other combination better than Denzel. His new film, The Book Of Eli, carries on that fine tradition as we follow what is possibly Hollywood's most overtly Christian hero ever as he journeys west in his quest to take the only existing copy of the Bible to where he believes God wants it to go.

Now of course, it could be argued that, post the mega-successful Narnia and Gibson's Passion, Hollywood has cottoned on to the might of the Christian dollar, and with a tagline like 'Deliver Us', the marketing men aren't exactly hiding the fact. But that doesn't seem to concern the Christian Denzel who co-produced Eli and helped with some Bible-inspired script re-writes. Whether a believer or not, it's a film which has much to commend it (Gary Oldman is sensational in full-on ham mode, and Michael Gambon (another of my personal faves) has a cracking, if somewhat macabre, cameo. I enjoyed it so much I've totally lost track of my commas. Go see.