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   • 51% 51% Rotten Tomatoes

   Critics consensus The Promise wastes an outstanding cast and powerful real-life story on a love triangle that frustratingly fails to engage. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

1. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › the-promise-2017The Promise movie review & film summary (2017) | Roger Ebert

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   Apr 21, 2017 · With “ The Promise ,” George, co-writing with Robin Swicord, treats the Armenian genocide of the early part of the 20 th century, an action undertaken by the soon-to-be-displaced Ottoman Empire, as a side exercise in its alliance with Germany as World War I was about to break out. Well over a million souls were killed in this action, which ...

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   Apr 21, 2017 · The Promise wastes an outstanding cast and powerful real-life story on a love triangle that frustratingly fails to engage. Brilliant medical student Michael (Oscar Isaac) meets beautiful dance ...

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   • Director: Terry George

   • Content Rating: PG-13
   • Actors: Oscar Isaac

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2017/04/20 › moviesReview: ‘The Promise’ Finds a Love Triangle in Constantinople

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   Apr 20, 2017 · The Promise. Directed by Terry George. Drama, History. PG-13. 2h 13m. By Jeannette Catsoulis. April 20, 2017. Weighed down by the worthiness of its intentions, “The Promise” is a big, barren ...

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   Apr 21, 2017 · Photo: Jose Haro/Open Road Films. It’s easy to blow raspberries at the epic The Promise, in which Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale compete for the same woman against a backdrop of the Armenian ...

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   Is the promise a good movie?

   • At the time of its American release, the film had an IMDb rating of 5.5/10 from 129,241 votes, and as of May 24, 2019 holds an IMDb rating of 6.1/10 based on 164,475 votes. In 2017 George received the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award in honor of his films depicting genocides, including The Promise.

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   Is the promise based on a true story?

   • The story of The Promise was based on an unproduced screenplay titled Anatolia by Robin Swicord, though Terry George completely rewrote the screenplay. Swicord says, "There’s some very fragmentary bits of my story that are in there, but he invented the Christian Bale character and changed the other characters.

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   Where can I watch the promise?

   • Rent The Promise on Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy it on Prime Video, Apple TV. The Promise wastes an outstanding cast and powerful real-life story on a love triangle that frustratingly fails to engage. Brilliant medical student Michael (Oscar Isaac) meets beautiful dance instructor Ana (Charlotte Le Bon) in late 1914.

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   Why is the promise a bad movie?

   • The chief flaw of The Promise is that there isn’t a single development that you can’t see limping toward you from a great distance. Another problem is that Oscar Isaac’s character is so insipid. The actor has made a specialty of transforming himself for every role, changing his look, his rhythms, perhaps his very essence.

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   Apr 21, 2017 · And the result is a sweeping movie experience, one that recalls 1960s-era films like Doctor Zhivago: It’s an intimate story set in the context of a historical epic, bringing an almost unimaginable tragedy into a more human scale. But while The Promise draws much-needed attention to an important historical moment, it also requires a few caveats.

   • Director: Terry George

8. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › the-promise-2006The Promise movie review & film summary (2006) | Roger Ebert

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   May 4, 2006 · Crouching effects, hidden plot. Qingcheng (Cecilia Cheung) falls in love with Kunlun (Dong-Gun Jang), a slave impersonating General Guangming in "The Promise." "The Promise" is pretty much a mess of a movie; the acting is overwrought, the plot is too tangled to play like anything but a plot, and although I know you can create terrific special ...

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   The Promise is a 2016 American epic historical war drama film directed by Terry George, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Robin Swicord. Set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the film stars Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale. The plot is about a love triangle that develops between Mikael (Isaac), an Armenian medical ...