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"Ridiculously implausible script", Apart from Viggo Mortensen, this movie is a waste of time. If they had acted it just a bit more over the top, it would have been a fine dark comedy. As it is, it's just dull and unrealistic. The violence is graphic and lurid, but doesn't add much to theme or plot. I felt it was gratuitous. If you want to see a much better movie about Russian mob life, try either "Brat" (Brother), "Brat II", or "Friend of the Deceased" (Ukrainian film). These three films have a lot more to say about life in the criminal trades, and just being human, than "Eastern Promises". Most of the plot line is just totally unrealistic.

"Great mob story set in London", Brutal yet artful, subtle yet gripping, "Eastern Promises" packs dynamite in the story, acting, and directing departments. Director David Cronenberg and his new favorite lead actor Viggo Mortensen (they previously teamed up to make "A History of Violence") return to tell a gripping story of the Russian mob in London, and how fate brings the mob into contact with an ordinary family who suddenly finds itself with the power to bring the mob hierarchy down. Mr. Cronenberg doesn't shy away from the brutality of mob violence, but he doesn't linger on it, either. Still, the movie isn't for squeamish viewers.

Two short but satisfying special features round out the DVD: a seven-or-eight minute piece that features the director and actors talking about the film, and a seven-or-eight minute piece about the history and role of the elaborate criminal tattoos featured in the film. Combined, you get a good fifteen minutes or so of satisfying behind-the-scenes information. For most films, that's actually enough for me when it comes to special features. My widescreen DVD featured crisp, clear picture and sound.

In you enjoy films in the organized crime genre, you'll probably like "Eastern Promises" a lot. It has all the elements one expects to see in this type of film, but also throws you a few curves, too.

"A perfect gangster movie", It's such a simple, nearly cliched, mob story. But it's told here with a frankness and brutality that is something to behold. Not an uplifting tale, but a gritty tale that seems, as much as these things can to a random middle class American, realistic. The tattoos are remarkable as is the look at a very different (Russian) mafia.

"Every Picture Tells A Story...", Horror legend David Cronenberg (Rabid, Scanners, The Brood, Videodrome, etc.) teams up once more w/ A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE star Viggo Mortensen (The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, A Perfect Murder) to create the dark, underworld masterpiece, EASTERN PROMISES. Mortensen plays Nikolai, a russian mobster w/ a lifetime's worth of lethal experience to go along w/ his body full of prison tattoos. Nikolai is a seemingly ice-cold killer without conscience. Or is he? Midwife, Anna (Naomi Watts from The Ring 1 and 2, King Kong) is plunged into the russian-mafia world after a young mother dies, leaving behind a newborn daughter and a mysterious diary. PROMISES is packed w/ tension, horrific revelations, and a cast of iron-clad characters, including Vincent Cassel as the drunken, very dangerous Kirill, and Armin Mueller-Stahl as the quietly menacing Semyon. Even the minor characters are well-written. Don't miss this one!...

"Harsh, Sad, Enthralling, Beautifully Acted, Well-Written, Smartly Directed, Well-Paced...A WINNER!", Quick story snapshot~Begin with a neck-slashing murder, move to a hemorrhaging pregnant girl, who dies giving birth to a living baby girl covered in her mother's blood, and focus on the midwife who innocently takes the dead mother's diary (written in Russian)in an attempt to find the deceased's identity (so as not to bury her an unknown). The diary becomes the object that drives the midwife's journey into the dark world of the London Russian mob, where she connects with a stoic, formidable mob chauffeur played by Mortensen, who is not just a driver, we learn pretty fast. Human sex slavery, murder, loyalties, and betrayals all play their part before we find out the true nature of the various characters by film's end.

I had this film sitting around waiting to be watched. I wanted to watch it for 1. Viggo 2. Naomi (both among my fave actors) and 3. due tot he good reviews.

However, the reviews that emphasized gore and violence and "nekkidness" made me decide to wait for a day when a dark film wouldn't drag my mood down too badly. (Yeah, I can be really affected by films, from joyful to depressing.)

I wish I had not waited. The darkness and evil and pain is balanced to a large degree by elements of good and light and courage. It's not a movie that ends happily, but it is a movie that ends realistically and with some hope. Hope that if people take steps to make things right, some things can be made...more right, if not fully right. And that is an ending that doesn't depress me, but makes me feel great respect for people who do step out of comfort zones or take difficult jobs to make the world better. Or just to save one child.

It's the ending that I began with when I described to my husband how greatly this movie had appealed to me (and subsequently re-watched it with him). The climactic scene at the waterfront is so beautifully done--the acting has subtleties in body language and vocal tone (especially Viggo's, and I totally understand the Oscar nomination). The visual and editing--just so powerful and humane, even in the darkness and dirt and grit and horror of what has been and what could have been.

I cannot stress how amazing Mortensen is. His appearance has been altered by tons of hair spray and gel and clothing and tattos. He moves his body and makes little movements with his head that feel..authentic. He moves as if his secrets cloak him. His accent seems quite, quite good (but not being Russian, I can't say for 100% if it is dead-on).

Watts, who is normally such a scene-stealer, is a good match for him, but she doesn't reach his level here. Mortensen has simply absorbed this character too deeply, and he is much more interesting, nuanced, and haunted a character than Watt's. We can't look away when Viggo's Nikolai is onscreen. We are sure he will look ths way or that, tilt his head, smile just so, and give something away to us. Marvelous.

The supporting cast (for it's all supportive when Viggo is on) does a great job, including Vincent Cassell's father-dominated, vulnerable-meets-arrogant, repressed gay mobster son. The scene where he blows up party balloons--wow. His face is so full of pain and anxiety and uncertainty and a host of emotions as he speaks to his little girl that we can momentarily forget just how criminal and unfeeling he can be in other circumstances, and in forgetting, sympathize.

I also found rivetting the "made man" sort of scene, when the criminal leaders come to initiate Viggo--and the tattoos tell their story.

As I said, the last few scenes--the waterfront, the double denouement (Viggo's, Naomi's), overlaid with the voice of the dead girl reading the same lines we heard her say in the opening scenes: Wow.

And for those who like romantic tension, there is tons here. Viggo manages to be threatening looking and aloof and then, bam, he's connecting in the subtle ways with Naomi's character. It's a thrill to watch their scenes together because of the palpable attraction he gives off without being 'romance hero" obvious.

I want to give a special kudo to the writer who places so much foreshadowing--in seemingly trivial acts, in phrases--from the very start that come to fruition beautifully as the film moves to its final moments.

Cronenberg is a director who's entertained me in some films, annoyed me with others, grosssed me out with some. Now, with Eastern Promises, he finally made a movie that made me want to see it again...and a third time.

Mir

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"Mobster with a heart?", wow...I liked it on the big screen and this is almost as good. Viggo Mortensen is certainly versatile, and adding this to his wide body of work is cool. Sometimes it was difficult to know where the story is located, but I suppose that's a realistic pitcure of how groups can change city locales. The story moves well and the end is very satisfying.

"Makes The Godfather seem like a nursery story", This 2007 British import is one of the bloodiest and violent films I have ever seen. It's about the Russian mafia in London and there are scenes in this film that makes The Godfather seem like a nursery story. Perhaps it's because there is less censorship nowadays but whatever it is, the film feels real, the plot fast and easy to follow and the acting superb.

Set in London, Naomi Watts is cast as a nurse in a maternity war who has problems of her own. She's English born but she lives with her mother and Uncle, both of whom are Russian émigrés. When a teenage girl in her care gives birth and then dies, she has deep feelings for the baby. She therefore sets out to uncover the mystery of the teenager who has left a diary in the Russian language, which she, herself, cannot read. She asks her uncle to translate it and when he refuses she goes to an older Russian man who owns an upscale Russian restaurant and who seems to be grandfatherly to everyone around them.

While this is going on, the audience sees some vile murders, and one grizzly scene where Viggo Mortenson, cast as a Russian chauffeur, has to dispose of a body. He works for the older Russian man and his wild and crazy son played by Vincent Cassel. Violence is everywhere. Young girls are brought from Russia and forced into brothels. There is greed, deception and horrific murders.

Naomi Watts starts to uncover the truth, and Viggo Mortenson, who was nominated for an Academy Award for this role, starts to befriend her. There is a stoic cold blooded calmness about him that is quite unnerving. Then, he is central to one scene in a Russian bathhouse which is the most violent I have ever seen.

How this all plays makes for really good drama. I was at the edge of my seat the whole time. Then, by the end of the film, all the loose ends are tied up in satisfactory way that makes sense. Good filmmaking.

Recommended, especially for those who are not afraid of nonstop action and violence.

"Blood In the Borscht", A man sitting in the barber chair unassumingly gets his throat slashed. A fourteen year-old girl dies in child birth leaving behind a diary whose contents causes mayhem within the Russian Mob in London. "Eastern Promises" is a good film but falls short of it's potential. The underlying mystery is OK but nothing earth shattering. The film has good ethnic color but doesn't shed much light on the inner workings of the Russian Mob. The film's main strengths are terrific lead performances by Viggo Mortensen as the mysterious gangster Nikolai and Naomi Watts as a mid-wife of Russian extraction who is drawn into the sordid events depicted in the film. "Eastern Promises" is worth checking out with minor qualification. Not for the squeamish, though.

"Eastern Promises", I liked this movie but... I thought it was very interesting and action movie. when the movie ended I looked at my kids and said. Is that it? I don't recomend it for children under 13. it's mostly for adults. There's nudity and violence. Some secenes toward the end it made my oldest son turn his head.And he's 22.

"Eastern Promises: Mafia mystique unmasked", By Richard Costa

What do a newborn baby girl, a dead teenage prostitute; a mid-wife and a driver for the Russian mob have in common?
They are all caught in the web of `Eastern Promises.'David Cronenberg's latest study of human violence has all the edge you expect from a taut suspense thriller. Viggo Mortensen's character (Nikolai) is a driver for a criminal organization in what should be a bit part that proves instead to be very significant, strange and ambiguous. The film shows the Russian mafia in all its dark glory. Viewers get a glimpse beneath the mystique of the mafia sans the positive spin that's been trailing mob films since the Godfather made it good to be bad. Tony Soprano became a cultural father figure because of his no-nonsense tough guy character, but when you see what his world is built around you suspect he's a devil. So too, Armin Mueller Stahl's Semyon, a paternal, world wise criminal ruler of the Russian underworld in London, seems the kindest elderly gentleman you'd want to meet at first sight when he's introduced in the film. But the fault line in Semyon's public persona grows into a chasm when the newborn baby in question has the power to alter his fate. Behind his genteel veneer lay a world of human trafficking and death.
The story begins with a girl of fourteen (Tatiana) giving birth in a London hospital. She dies during the birth and leaves nothing but her diary, written in Russian. Her midwife Anna (Naomi Watts) seeks to have the diary translated to find the newborn girl's kin. She finds a business card which brings her to a restaurant where she meets the seeming gentleman and restaurateur Mueller-Stahl (Semyon). He claims no recollection of the girl. Anna naively asks if he would read the diary. His interest piques when he learns of the diary, and so Watts has given valuable information to the devil. Other characters and subplots intersect--including Viggo Mortensen's relationship to both patriarch Semyon and his twitchy son Kirill, played by Vincent Cassel.
Vory V Zakone is Russian for `Thieves in-law.' The unique code for criminals in prison camps flourished in the Stalin era. Thieves in-law are sworn to forego everything, including family, for fealty to their fellow thieves. Their power increased when the Soviet Union fell apart. Modern Russia is a complex portrait of relationships between the government, the Vory and white collar criminals. In the film, when the Russian mafia moves to London, the criminal code goes with them. The Vory V Zakone are well known for their tattoos; in fact they're ranked by them. As a detective inspecting a dead body remarks in the film: `In Russian prisons, your life story is written on your body in tattoos. Without tattoos, you don't exist.'
Once fourteen year-old Tatiana dies in the hospital with needle marks on her arms after escaping Semyon's sex slave trade, we get a caption from her diary: `I am not sure I can carry on another day. The windows won't open, so I cannot throw myself out. They inject me every day with heroin. Sometimes, I think this is all an hallucination.' Anna's Russian-born Uncle wants her to destroy the diary, while her mother Helen says of the criminal organization: `They're like a contagious disease, there's no cure once they've touched you.'
As Nikolai, Mortsen's accent is perfect, complete with missing articles from his speech for effect. His ambiguity is complimented by Anna's innocence. The underworld meets civilization in their encounters throughout the film. Watts compelling presence radiates the screen like it did in King Kong (she was the blockbusters strongest asset), and Mueller Stahl's duplicitous performance will haunt you long after you leave the theater. Eastern Promises has sexual situations, a now famous nude fight scene in a sauna, graphic violence and very adult situations.


Richard Costa
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