Eastern Promises
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Synopsis
A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Cast
- Viggo Mortensen
- Naomi Watts
- Vincent Cassel
- Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Sinéad Cusack
- Donald Sumpter
- Jerzy Skolimowski
- Josef Altin
- Raza Jaffrey
- Mike Sarne
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- Jul 24, 2021
Thus completes Cronenberg's Viggo duology: one about a bad guy pretending to be a good guy, and the other about a good guy pretending to be a bad guy. A Dangerous Method is about horny guys pretending not to be horny.
Will MenakerAug 15, 2013"Stay alive a little longer." or "For poetic reasons, I suggest you take his blood." Here men's lives are written on their skin. Their identity is a history, a tradition that governs a culture. Any violation is meaningful. A woman's life is written on paper you can burn…
matt lynchApr 30, 2012The naked knife fight in the Sauna will stay with me forever. For me this is one of Cronenberg's best. In his double bill of exploring the world of violence, I prefer this one over A History of Violence. It is not often that Cronenberg allows any kind of absolution in…
DirkH - Feb 21, 2019
david cronenberg turns the camera on and says “Viggo, ACTIVATE.”
Erik 🎼Jun 3, 2022Can’t believe this of all things is Cronenberg’s happiest movie
Taylor WilliamsNov 22, 2018Should be completely impersonal, but it's not. Should be a minor work, but it's not. Should be shown in film schools - for students to see how to take on a project completely for hire and make it completely theirs. All the tropes are there somehow - body horror…
Neil Bahadur - Mar 20, 2018
god the scene in the cafe where nikolai touches anna's hand........ poetic..... pride & prejudice wishes it could have that much impact
Holly-BethMay 31, 2022new favorite christmas movie just dropped
Sergio Muñoz EsquerMay 13, 2022“for poetic reasons, I suggest you take his blood” 🖋 fairy tale alert!!! 🪄
fran hoepfner
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Dasch lovedEastern PromisesWas intrigued the whole movie. Very dark and heavy plot. The naked fight scene was like the cherry on top 🤭
Ant0ine lovedEastern Promises9.5/10 After my very first viewing of a film where Vigo Mortense plays someone other than Aragorn I can tell you that I am not at all disappointed. This film becomes one of my favorites, the story, the evolution of characters and the narration is simply perfect. What a nugget
Jacob Hall lovedEastern PromisesNever have I seen a film do all 4 character types so well. Hero (Watts), anti-hero (Mortensen), anti-villain (Cassel), and villain (Mueller-Stahl). I mean this movie is damn near perfect in every sense. Also has the 2nd greatest butt naked male fight behind Borat.
- Clementine likedEastern Promises
It is a great Russian-themed crime film. It talks a lot about life in the Russian mob and holding people accountable for their crimes. I really like the slow pace and quick transitions between scenes. Also, naked Viggo Mortensen was a nice surprise. 8/10
anton chigurh likedEastern PromisesAn entertaining Russian crime movie. I enjoyed this but didn’t feel like there was anything special about it. Not much of a standout film, but not bad either. To me it’s like a Russian take on a generic American action movie.
LukeJD likedEastern PromisesMissing a certain something that keeps it far from the upper echelon of crime films imo, but Viggo is absolutely outstanding and I would’ve totally watched either a prequel or sequel entirely about him
- Matt likedEastern Promises
Good crime film with unique with being Russian mafia focussed. Viggo mortetson is allways good as well found the tattoos interesting as well
DrunkenTweett lovedEastern PromisesA good old Russian mafia movie. The performance by the main character is really amazing that it almost felt real. I highly recommend it
Patrick DiTondo likedEastern PromisesA thoughtful foray into the London underworld. Equal measures brutal and slick
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Metacritic
It’s engrossing, and Mueller-Stahl’s mix of Old World chivalry and murderousness is scarier than Jason and Freddy combined.
David Edelstein
New York Magazine (Vulture)
In Eastern Promises, shot to envelop by the great Peter Suschitzky, Cronenberg brings us face to face with the horror of self.
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Cronenberg made a movie called “The Dead Zone,” and I sometimes wonder whether, for all his formal brilliance, he has ever torn himself away from that locked-in, airless state of mind. You walk out of Eastern Promises feeling spooked and sullied, as if waking from a noisome dream.
Anthony Lane
The New Yorker
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