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    Eastern Promises

    R2007 · Thriller · 1h 40m

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      • It’s the kind of daring, visceral sequence you leave the cinema talking about, but coming on the heels of one of the best films of Cronenberg’s career, Eastern Promises winds up being a disappointment. Where A History… was a comic-book adaptation with unexpected depth, this takes a painful issue and gives it a pulpy implausibility.
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  2. Sep 13, 2007 · David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises" opens with a throat-slashing and a young woman collapsing in blood in a drugstore, and connects these events with a descent into an underground of Russians who have immigrated to London and brought their crime family with them.

  3. Sep 14, 2007 · Bearing the trademarks of psychological drama and gritty violence, Eastern Promises is a very compelling crime story. Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), who is both ruthless and mysterious, has...

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    • David Cronenberg
    • R
    • Viggo Mortensen
  4. Eastern Promises Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Stephen Silver Tilt Magazine. Represented one of Cronenberg’s stronger periods, one with more mainstream...

  5. Sep 14, 2007 · Directed by David Cronenberg. Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. R. 1h 40m. By A.O. Scott. Sept. 14, 2007. The story told in “Eastern Promises” is a grim and violent one, set in London’s...

    • David Cronenberg
    • A.O. Scott
    • 100 min
  6. Sep 14, 2007 · A superbly wrought yarn set in the milieu of first-generation Russian mobsters in London that is simultaneously tough-minded and compassionate about the human condition, Eastern Promises instantly takes its place among David Cronenberg's very best films. Read More. By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW. 88.

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  7. Sep 21, 2007 · Eastern Promises: Directed by David Cronenberg. With Josef Altin, Mina E. Mina, Aleksandar Mikic, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse. 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.

  8. It is one of these drugged and brutalized women whose death opens the film, and brings an English nurse (Naomi Watts) into the story. As a multitude of promises, threats and tragedies unfolds, you get the maximum out of "Eastern Promises" with minimum advance knowledge of its story. Initially, that is.

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