Laurence “Larry” Wachowski (b. 1965) and Andrew Paul “Andy” Wachowski (b. 1967) were raised in the Jesuit Communist community-organizing mecca of Chicago.

Chicago was where Jesuit Greg Galluzzo taught Barack Obama how to be a Communist “community organizer”.  Galluzzo worked out of the “Gamaliel Foundation” because the coward Jesuits must always put a Jewish face to their machinations.

Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett (who has her own full-time, taxpayer-funded Secret Service bodyguard) is an interesting tie-in; her father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett, was a rabid black Communist—Jarrett’s entire family is filled with them—who worked at a Chicago black Communist newspaper called “The Defender”.  He was a member of the Communist Party, USA.

Another member of the Communist Party, USA who also worked at The Defender (roughly the same time—mid to late 1940’s) was pervert pedophile Frank Marshall Davis.  They were almost certainly in league with each other.

There is an excellent chance that Frank Marshall Davis was Barack Obama’s real father.

He was also Obama’s sexual abuser.

The Wachowskis may not have a Jesuit/Communist pedigree as obvious as Barack Obama’s but their movies show they are clearly on the same plane as the Luciferians.  Perhaps that is why “Larry” has gone through a “gender-reassignment” to become “Lana”.

Photo by Dan Winters

Their first big break was on the Richard Donner / (reputed Knight of Malta) Sylvester Stallone /Antonio Banderas movie “Assassins” in 1995.

“Assassins” was handed to them by Italian Catholic Helliwood icon (but it’s really the Jews) Dino De Laurentiis.

They intended Assassins to be much more complex with what they knew to be reality but it was all edited out.

The blockbuster-film producer Dino De Laurentiis optioned the Wachowskis’ next screenplay, “Assassins,” while they were renovating their parents’ house.  De Laurentiis entertained them with champagne and lascivious stories about beautiful actresses, and then sold the script to Warner Bros. for five times what he’d paid.  According to Lana, substantial revisions by a hired writer removed “all the subtext, the visual metaphors … the idea that within our world there are moral pocket universes that operate differently.”  When the movie was made, in 1995 (directed by Richard Donner, of “Lethal Weapon” fame, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, and Julianne Moore), the Wachowskis tried to get their names taken off the credits but failed.  Still, the script earned them a deal with Warner Bros.  They finished the work on their parents’ house, quit construction, and became full-time filmmakers. ~ Beyond the Matrix, Aleksandar Hemon, The New Yorker

The man who re-wrote Assassins was writer/producer Brian Helgeland.

Helgeland was Jesuit-trained at Loyola Marymount.

It was Roman emissary De Laurentiis that financed their next perversion-fest*, Bound (1996), about two lesbians who try to steal millions from the mafia.

Larry/Lana must’ve had a good time with this movie;

The directors initially struggled to cast the lesbian characters of Violet and Corky before securing [Jennifer] Tilly and [Gina] Gershon.  To choreograph the sex scenes, the directors employed “sex educator” Susie Bright, who also made a cameo appearance in the film. ~ Bound (1996 film), Wikipedia

Three years later the Wachowskis gave us the premier disclosing of the Jesuit/Cosmic Accident/Mystery Babylon web of our existence with their 1999 film The Matrix.

After two sequels that held nothing of the same impact as the original, the Wachowskis went on to make the 2006 film V for Vendetta.  It was the movie that has gone on to define resistance to the “New World Order” as dissatisfied youth everywhere dawn Guy Fawkes masks for their protests…what they don’t know is that Guy Fawkes was a Jesuit assassin who tried to murder England’s Protestant King James I by filling the basement of the House of Lords with barrels of gunpowder late in the year of 1605—November to be exact.

“Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot…”

Two years later they took an ill-advised side-track into the box-office bomb that was Speed Racer.

They recovered somewhat with Cloud Atlas in 2012 which pulled in an extra 22% of their $130 million budget.

Their effort seemed to be a little too complex as we must rely on the “official synopsis” to understand what was really going on.

Cloud Atlas is a 2012 German-American^[2] science fiction film written and directed by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski. Adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell, the film has multiple plotlines set across six different eras.  The official synopsis describes it as “an exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.”^[7] ~ Wikipedia

Does this tell us that the Wachowskis are actually calling us to rebel against the Luciferian World Order?

Unfortunately I’ll never know thanks to the putrescence that was the casting; with names like Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon and Hugh Grant not even the return of Hugo Weaving (who played “V” for them) will allow me to watch it.

I always laugh when I think of Tom Hanks because his face brings up his nickname given to him by the military man who made Saving Private Ryan what it was for Steven Schmeilberg, Marine Corps Vietnam veteran Dale Dye, who called Hanks “Turd No. 1”.  Dye and Schmeilberg set the standard for realism in “war movies”.  Between them and computer graphic imaging never again will we be subjected to bloodless combat, out-of-period equipment or national guard stand-ins.  Dye got an interesting start with Catholic nuns at the now-defunct St. Joseph’s Military Academy in, where else?  —Chicago!

So now you’re caught up to the movie I wanted to tell you about; Jupiter Ascending.

Jupiter is the king planet which sits next to Saturn.  Saturn is more obviously associated with Satan but there’s a lot of cross-over.  Who is really ascending?

Now, in order to explain this to you I’ve got to spoil the crap out of it so if that is a concern, hold your place, go watch it and come back.

OK, are we good?

So the movie begins with Jupiter’s father, Maximilian Jones, falling in love with a native Russian named Aleksa while he was visiting there.  He has an odd obsession with looking at the stars.  The two marry and Aleksa becomes pregnant.  Maximilian insists on calling the child “Jupiter” after the most important of “planets” but Aleksa channels the audience and tells him it’s ridiculous.

Unfortunately for her, some un-named past dealings with the Russian criminal element have caused Maximilian to get shot and killed (he was really annoying anyway) and we’re forced to endure the alliterative stupidity of metaphor in the name “Jupiter Jones”.

I have to say that Mila Kunis did little for me as Jupiter Jones but then again the character was ridiculous anyway.

The movie revolves around this female character and it’s interesting to note that metaphors in the Bible—particularly in the Book of Revelation—always point to women symbolizing religions or religious movements.

So Jupiter grows up with her Russian family who emigrates to—where else?  Chicago!  She helps them clean houses and is often shown cleaning someone else’s toilet.

Outside of all of this, in space, three ruling elite sociopath siblings lightly discuss the genocidal “harvesting” of whole planets for their selfish needs; Balem (sounding similar to the prophet who refused to curse Israel in Numbers 22 and 23—Balaam) Titus (not to be confused with the Roman emperor…or perhaps purposefully to be confused with him) and sister Kalique, of the Abrasax family.  This “harvesting” process produces a special elixir that equates to perpetual youth for those in power, unfortunately all human-like beings must die to make it.

The idea that the Elite must literally feed off of common citizens is an old but true plot twist.

Thai police arrested a British man Friday after discovering six human babies which had been roasted and wrapped in gold leaf in preparation for a type of black magic ritual, according to reports.

Police said Friday that they found the corpses packed into suitcases in Bangkok’s Chinatown on Thursday, the AFP news agency reported.  Chow Hok Kuen, a British citizen born in Hong Kong of Taiwanese parents, was being held for possession of human remains. ~ Thai Police Arrest Man After Babies’ Bodies Found Roasted, Wrapped in Gold Leaf, MSNBC

At one point, Kalique schools Jupiter on what in the universe is far more precious than gold or silver—something even worth genocide; time.

Of course, Earth is targeted soon for “harvesting” except that a power play amongst the siblings causes complications.

The matron of the Abrasax clan has recently died and it turns out that “Jupiter” is somehow her genetic copy.

This is different from being her clone as we are told that clones can not substitute for humans in the worth of “harvesting”.

Titus and Balem have each sent mercenaries to kidnap or kill Jupiter.  The soldiers of the bad mercenaries are “Keepers”—creatures that look a lot like “alien greys”.  They can do anything they like to you from invasive experimentation (hinted at in the movie) to shooting up an entire city yet their powers over mind and matter keep you from ever knowing it happened.

Fortunately for Jupiter, one of the mercenaries decides not to follow through with his contract.  Caine Wise (played by Channing Tatum) is a “splice”—a genetically-manipulated being that is half human and half wolf.  Tatum’s pointed ears and bleached hair give him a pixie look that I’m sure wasn’t intended as he frequently rescues Jupiter in heroic fashion.  It doesn’t help that his signature technological advantage are a pair of hover boots on which he skates gaily around his environment.  I’m sorry, it ends up being far more “gay” than thrilling, especially when Tatum needlessly spends nearly 20 minutes of the movie without a shirt on.  That must’ve equated to several months of shooting, something “Lana” didn’t mind, I’m sure.

Genetic engineering was front and center in this movie and I want you to know that the cool and sexy beings shown in the movie have a basis in real life that is anything but.  The rumors of an “Island of Dr. Moreau” really existing are certainly true and many a man and animal have suffered at the hands of these literal Nazi “scientists”.

Another key character—Stinger Apini (played by Sean Bean)—is also genetically engineered but he has bee DNA.  Both Stinger and Caine have been disgraced from the military and their greatest desire is to be reinstated into “the Legion”; a name which speaks of both Rome and spiritual entities.

They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.  When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him, and he had his dwelling among the tombs.  And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain; because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.  Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.  Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before Him; and shouting with a loud voice, he said, “What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?  I implore You by God, do not torment me!”  For He had been saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”  And He was asking him, “What is your name?”  And he said to Him, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” ~ Mark 5:1-9

When one is a member of the Legion they have large, functioning wings, but when one is disgraced, those wings are removed.

The ability of the fallen to be redeemed is something the gnostic Luciferians and their masters yearn for greatly.  It was central to the Aronofsky film “Noah”.  Alas, neither the fallen nor their genetic abomination offspring can ever be restored.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, who are protected by the Power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.  In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.

As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries, seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.  It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven—things into which angels long to look. ~ I Peter 1:3-12 NASB (some capitalization added)

Even our fallen angel protector, Caine, has a name that wishes for the restoration of a murderer.**

It is pleasing, however, to see that Russia is still getting plenty of attention in Helliwood; mostly in a contrived return of the Cold War, however.  This was really blatant in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

Unfortunately for manhood, there really wasn’t a single pure human hero in the entire movie.  Even when the space cops (the “Aegis”) arrive, their starship is captained by a black woman.

“Balem” is played by Eddie Redmayne in a way that just exudes homosexuality—most of his lines are whispered, the rest are screamed (and that got annoying).

His brother Titus (Douglas Booth) was portrayed as a metrosexual playboy who could’ve easily gone both ways.

—that’s because the Luciferian, gnostic, Jesuit-controlled Elite fear disciplined Christian men more than any force in the world save the Return of the King.

Because Jupiter is some sort of genetic copy of their mother, she is given a royal title and protectorate over Earth which both brothers try to steal from her, Titus tries to seduce and kill her, then Balem tries to force her abdication by kidnapping her dysfunctional Russian family.

I found the way that Titus spun bold lies in order to get Jupiter to marry him was powerfully satanic and pretty disturbing in a subtle way.

There’s so much wrapped up in the mythology surrounding the name and the “planet” (more on that shortly) Jupiter that I was able to find a decent write-up which covers a lot of it—

Jupiter or Jove was said to be the king of the gods and the god of “sky” and thunder in myth.  Jupiter was also the chief deity of Roman state religion throughout the Republican and Imperial eras, until Christianity became the dominant religion of the Empire.  It is Jupiter (with Saturn) that presides over all Roman religion and sacrifice to the gods.  Jupiter (or Zeus in Greek Myth) depicted as the Eagle (the sovereign bird of birds) clutching the Thunderbolt is another symbol found in the “esoteric” symbols of empires form Rome to the Nazis, and of course the Eagle standard used by Rome (and every other Dictatorship since) can be found decorated into the pulpits of Christendom.

Jupiter is the god of the New World Order.  Saturn, while his father, now worshipped in secret by the same Elite was the father God of the Old World Order.  Both are massively connected, not least physically in terms of their size in our Solar system, but as “forces”, or vibrations that play a part in the movie we call life on Earth.

Statues of Jupiter as the Eagle can be seen with the child Ganymede (one of its Moons) at stately homes all over Britain and relate to the Jupiter and the Age of Aquarius.

The Romans regarded Jupiter as the equivalent of the Greek Zeus, and in Roman art, the myths and iconography of Zeus are adapted under the name Iuppiter.  In the Greek-influenced tradition, Jupiter was the brother of Neptune and Pluto.  Each presided over one of the three realms of the universe: sky, the waters, and the underworld.  From this perspective the sky, the primordial waters (oceans) and the inner Earth and Underworld, where all connected.  They were the place of “origins” the home of the gods and the so-called Lucifer Planets.  Saturn of course has its own symbolism I have touched on in other reviews, but I will stick my neck out here and say that maybe the Wachowskis didn’t want to be “so obvious” and therefore focused on Jupiter rather than Saturn in this narrative?  In fact I would suggest that the twins were possibly “inverting” Jupiter symbolism, just as the Elite have on Earth (see the Eagles above) so to use its vibration for Saturnian ends? …

The movie title Jupiter Ascending  bears a subtle similarity to Lucifer Rising a film directed by Kenneth Anger on the Satanic Majesties-era Stones, with Jagger donating a dissonant synthesiser soundtrack to Anger’s cinematic enactment of one of Alister Crowley’s rituals – Inauguration of My Demon Brother.  Crowley also appears on the Beatle’s Sgt Pepper Montage album cover illustration and on Michael Jackson’s Dangerous album illustration, which also has symbols of all-seeing-eyes, lakes of fire and other Masonic symbols.  Crowley was one of the most influential figures on pop /film culture and entertainment in the 20th Century.  His famous motto: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law” embodies the rising up through rebellion and chaos. ~ Jupiter (Lucifer) Ascending & the Harvesting of Souls, Through Ancient Eyes

The connection of Rome, the 4^th Reich and America plays out in everything we do and are today.

This same article brought out something else about the purposeful choosing of such odd names:

Just to digress slightly, interestingly the high powered Belgian satanic cult by the name of “Abrasax” (Abraxas) was briefly mentioned during the horrific Marc Dutroux court case, involving the abduction and torture of girls in Belgium in the 90’s. ~ Jupiter (Lucifer) Ascending & the Harvesting of Souls, Through Ancient Eyes

The Marc Dutroux trials have shown conclusively that not only do the Elite literally and sexually feed off of your children but so do their puppets in government and they all have the power to completely cover it up.

The movie ends with several climactic battles and Jupiter goes back to clean toilets; but now she understands why she’s been humbled and matured.

She takes a break to speak with her Nephilim boyfriend who has his wings returned to him and he asks her, “Should we tell them?”  She responds, “What, that I own the world?”

This is something I’ve been telling you passionately for a while now.

Our Adversary does not own the world.  He owns the world system; all of the banks, the militaries, the intelligence agencies, the media and entertainment.

Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.”  Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan!  For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’” ~ Matthew 4:8-10

The Earth was given to Adam, son of God, to steward for its Master, the King of kings.  He purchased a remnant of Adam’s sons and daughters to be restored to their true royal lineage—not by their blood, but by His.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”  The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. ~ Romans 8:15-17

Just like Jupiter, the only thing that remains is you realizing you are royal and asserting your will over that which you already have authority over.

END NOTE:

The Wachowskis only made 3% more off of their whopping $176 million budget so they continue to take risks in giving you this information.

How do they get away with it?

Well, one reason is that they promulgate the Jesuit Cosmic Accident lies of how mankind came into being and how the Earth is just a globe spinning in space amongst untold millions just like it (another annoying scene).

What, you didn’t know the Earth was flat and space exploration was as fake as Hollywood…?

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*  When you see the Wachowskis connected to Helliwood mogul Joel Silver, of “Silver Productions”, understand that the power behind them all is Rome.
**  Now, interestingly, I believe strongly that Adam’s son Cain, who murdered his brother Able, may very well have been Saved as his sin/crime merited death yet he was spared and many of his children bore the Name of God in them; “El”.

Is it a rated R version of a Cecil B. DeMille film? No. Ben Hur with blood, it is not.

But, taken in its entirety, it could be considered extraordinarily brave for a full-budget film with major Hollyweird “talent”.

The creators behind the film are billed as “The Hughes Brothers” whom I’ve never heard of. Apparently, they are black twins who can claim such great works as Menace II Society, From Hell and, our current fare, The Book of Eli. If I had known this before I rented the film I may not have…which I think would’ve been a mistake. Interestingly enough, Denzel Washington is credited as one of the producers so it appears he had a stake in the project. He never struck me as a particularly religious guy but, then again, this movie is only moderately “religious” (albeit, by my demanding standards).

The movie opens in an obviously post Armageddon America complete with falling nuclear ash. We pan to see our mask-clad lead (“Eli”, played by Denzel Washington) kill a cat with a bow and arrow. Now, it’s a hairless cat and it appears to be chowing on a human corpse but I could’ve done without it. Certainly, you get the picture that surviving is no easy task.

Turns out it’s actually 30 years past whatever Republican-inspired apocalypse has occurred (sarcasm is mine, not implied by the film) and we see that Eli is a drifter.

The movie has a pretty slow start. Eli spends the night in a disheveled house, empty save the punk rocker who hung himself in the closet.

The next day he starts out walking and comes across what is pretty obviously a trap; nasty-looking woman by the side of the road asking for help.

Yep. On cue, out come the Mad Max ruffians to mug the wayward traveler.

But our man Eli is no ordinary traveler.

Honestly, when I think of a silver screen badass, I think more of someone like Ray Stevenson (who plays the villain’s Enforcer, “Redridge”, in our movie). I was not overly familiar with Ray’s work until I saw him as the lead in the gratuitously graphic Punisher: War Zone and I loved him in it, even though I didn’t love so much of the gore. But I wasn’t surprised because The Punisher is the king of comic carnage.

But I digress.

In my thought processes I worked through being comfortable with Washington as the badass because (certainly he wasn’t any more of a stretch than archetypical metrosexual Tom Cruise) and, in real life, hardly anyone who is a true “badass” actually looks it.

Eli very quickly cleans up the gaggle of gangsters with a sharp-looking machete. The bloodletting begins with a classic Clint Eastwood exchange; badguy leader tries to push Eli around, grabs him and lets go to which Eli calmly states, “Put that hand on me again and you won’t get it back.” Badguy puts his hand back on Eli and before you know it, he ain’t got no hand no moe.

According to IMDb, Washington studied under Bruce Lee’s protégé Dan Inosanto for his action scenes but, in the movie, we are never told where Eli gets his amazing crimefighting skills from (and there are some, “oh come on” moments, too). The only hint we have is that he wears a Shemagh scarf around his neck such as the kind many in the Special Forces community prefer.

There is an interesting twist at the end when the 1-handed badguy boss asks for Eli’s name and Eli slowly finishes him off. Now some would consider this even more gratuitous than usual for Hollywood but, given the nature of the badguys and my penchant for loving to see unrequited justice get delivered, I appreciated it.

The very next scene lays the groundwork for how Denzel and the twins seemed to be on the same sheet of music with my assessment; “you will eventually reap what you sow”.

As Eli walks along, he is overlooking another road beneath him where a man and woman are also walking. Soon they get waylaid by a motorcycle gang who murders the man and assaults the woman. Eli begins to mumble to himself to “stay on your path…stay on your path.”

I didn’t particularly enjoy the context but there was a sense of reality to the situation. Evil happens all of the time and most of the time, the predators get away with it.

Soon our Eastwood-esque anti-hero saunters into a “town” of dregs and survivors and goes to a merchant to charge his iPod. He then decides to go across the street to the bar to pay for some expensive…water! I will say, throughout the movie, some very poignant points are made about the bountiful blessings available to us in the United States that we so take for granted.

While he’s there, who should accost him but the leader of the very same biker gang.

Our hero tries to avoid a fight but dirtbag ain’t havin’ it..so he gets it, right in the kisser.

As he lays there bleeding and dazed, Eli leans over him and whispers, “I know who you are…a murderer of innocent travelers on the road…you are going to be held to account for the things you have done, do you know that? Do you?”

Dude. It was COOL.

You reap what you sow…eventually.

But now the rest of the gang ain’t happy cause their boy is now sucking dust off the floor. As they surround Eli, he places his precious bag on the ground at his feet and (as colorful ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott would say) gets Biblical on those boys.

“Cursed be the ground for our sake. Oh thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we are taken for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.”

Now, I think this is a paraphrase of several different passages but that was cool, too!

The only problem is that he has now decimated the muscle of the town’s boss, “Carnegie” played by the very talented Gary Oldman (who looked like sh*t, I hope, on purpose). It seems that Carnegie likes to read…not for elucidation, but to find out how to better control people. A Democrat!!

And his muscle had the job of finding him that one book that was going to make it all easier for him.

So he is now looking to get introduced to Eli via the point of Redridge’s gun. Will Eli stay and join the merry band? No thanks. Why don’t you sleep on it…in a locked room?

To add a carrot along with the stick, Carnegie sends the daughter—“Solara” (played by Mila Kunis)—of his blind slave concubine “Claudia” (played by Jennifer Beals) to entice Eli.

But Eli ain’t havin’ none of that, either. However, Solara begs to stay as a ploy to imply she did what she was sent to do and Eli acquiesces.

Before she’s allowed into his cell, however, he hides what appears to be a very large, traditional Bible. Could this be “the book” Carnegie is after…?

In the process of being the hospitable monk on a mission, Eli invites Solara to join him in the very rare bounty of food he’s been given. There’s one catch; Eli has an odd ritual he forces Solara to go through before they begin eating.

Let me depart from my flippant commentary for a moment to say, it was a powerful moment.

Solara reports back to Carnegie but then mimics the prayer she was taught with mother, Claudia. This alerts Carnegie to the possibility that it is the book he’s been looking for. He then threatens Claudia to get Solara to say Eli has a book and what kind it is. But Solara doesn’t know, she can’t read. Describe it, or else!

Another powerful moment.

Carnegie realizes how close he is and rushes to the locked room. But Eli has vanished and there was a guard right outside the door!

Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the Church in order to mistreat them. And he had James the brother of John put to death with a sword. When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also.

Now it was during the days of Unleavened Bread. When he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out before the people.

So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the Church to G-d.

On the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison. And, behold, an angel of the L-rd suddenly appeared and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter’s side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And his chains fell off his hands. And the angel said to him, “Gird yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.” And he went out and continued to follow, and he did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. When they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened for them by itself; and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for sure that the L-rd has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.” And when he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

When he knocked at the door of the gate, a servant-girl named Rhoda came to answer. When she recognized Peter’s voice, because of her joy she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter was standing in front of the gate. They said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was so. They kept saying, “It is his angel.” But Peter continued knocking; and when they had opened the door, they saw him and were amazed. But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the L-rd had led him out of the prison. And he said, “Report these things to James and the brethren.” Then he left and went to another place.

Now when day came, there was no small disturbance among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter. When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. ~Acts 12:1-19

Redridge rather unceremoniously shot Eli’s guard, as well.

And they all catch up in the open street where Eli seems very unintimidated by the number of guns trained on him. Here we find out that, yep, it is the book Carnegie is looking for because he grew up with it and he knows how “faith” can be used to control the masses (a Democrat and a Marxist*—nowadays, the same thing). But Eli has other plans for the Book and continues on “west”.

Soon, a gunfight ensues and it seems that Eli is supernaturally protected and just as supernaturally aiming his handgun, making insane one-handed shots count each and every time. A little annoyed at this, I also counted how many times his one-shot-one-kill kills were shot and, surprisingly, “17” was a realistic number for a modern high-capacity 9mm handgun. Trick shooting notwithstanding.

After exactly 17 rounds, Eli whips out his shotgun and Carnegie catches some shot in the leg.

Having won the gun battle, Eli goes back to walking “west”.

But now Solara wants to tag along and bribes Eli with uncovering the source of Carnegie’s power; a freshwater spring. Eli tries to lock Solara behind because the road ahead is dangerous but she finds a way to start after him again. Except, this time, it’s Solara who is waylaid by the next crop of Armageddon sexual Assaulters (same nasty bait chick, though). She’s about to be subjected to something really nasty, herself, when some well-placed arrows (and I mean well-placed) come flying to her rescue, thanks to Warchief Eli.

Carnegie isn’t about to let his book slip out of his grasp. So he orders Redridge to saddle up and go after them both.

They both have to spend one more night together where there is again some poignant discussion about, “Do you read the same book every day?!”

“Without fail.”

When they get back on the road, Solara wants to know how Eli is directed and she is told “by a voice” and that he is walking “by faith, not by sight”.

Soon they come upon an old house and they go up to it looking for…hell I don’t know. It’s obviously important to the story.

Living in the house are two unusually cagy old people who seemed to have the booby-trap skills and killing instincts of Green Berets!

Will they stay for food?

Um…not when it’s manflesh courtesy of the previous 15 unsuccessful robbers. Interestingly, there is a neurological degenerative disease that comes to those who eat the brain matter of their own kind:

Kuru is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, caused by a prion found in humans. The term “kuru” derives from the Fore word “kuria/guria”, “to shake”, a reference to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease; it is also known among the Fore as the laughing sickness due to the pathologic bursts of laughter people would display when afflicted with the disease. It is now widely accepted that Kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via cannibalism. ~Kuru, Wikipedia.org

But now Carnegie has caught up with them and a big gun battle ensues.

Eli assures Solara that they will both make it to their destination intact…but to quote the mad Irishman in Braveheart, the two crazy cannibals were fuhked.

Eli and Solara do get overwhelmed by Carnegie’s firepower and, amazingly, Eli gives up his book to save Solara and gets shot for his trouble.

That isn’t supposed to go that way. WTF?!

Good thing the movie isn’t over yet!

Captured Solara causes an interesting chain of events and is able to steal a vehicle to go back for Eli.

But he’s not there.

He’s walking down the road, west! Gut-shot and all!!

It so happens that they are within a short drive of Eli’s goal; Alcatraz island where some survivors are rebuilding civilization…with books. What’s the one book Librarian and freekazoid Malcolm McDowell really needs most? A Bible!

But wait a minute, they gave up the Bible.

Eli has a way to get it back.

As he waits out the final days of his life, he accomplishes his mission and the final, powerful moment hits the screen like a 16^th century Gutenberg press.

If only they stopped there.

But they had to make a PC plug for ecumenical egalitarian kumbaya in what, up to now, was an obviously unashamed statement on the value of the Christian Bible, by showing us how it completed the highly valued works of other religions in the “library” (just like the subtle role the muslim “researchers” played alongside the Catholic “researchers” who gave Hugh Jackman his fantastic monster-fighting weapons in the Catholic religion-action-thriller VanHelsing *vomit*).

And that’s really where The Book of Eli (nice play on words for the title, huh?) was annoyingly short of what it could’ve been. Eli explained why he gave up the Book to save Solara as, “I got so caught up with keeping it safe that I forgot to live by what I learned from it, ‘do for others more than you do for yourself’.” OK…not bad, but not the first passage that came to my mind.

“Greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” ~John 15:13

Is it brave to say “Amen” in the heart of Sodom? You bet!

Was it worth the rental? You bet (I saved a few plot twists for you in case you haven’t seen it yet and would like to).

Is it a keeper? Eh…not so much.

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* Karl Marx; “religion is the opiate of the masses” originates from the introduction of his 1843 work Contribution to Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right which was subsequently released one year later in Marx’s own journal Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, a collaboration with Arnold Ruge. Wikipedia.org