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starring: Josef Altin, Mina E. Mina, Aleksandar Mikic, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Lalita Ahmed directed by: David Cronenberg  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: Video On Demand Release Date: August 28, 2008 Running Time: 102 minutes Studio: NBC Universal Theatrical Release Date: September 21, 2007 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Eastern PromisesI 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. Rating:  - Eastern Promises: Mafia mystique unmaskedBy 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 ... Read More Rating: - Cronenberg as Thriller Director, Part IIEastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007) Film critic Jim Emerson has said that the central fight scene in Eastern Promises is "sure to go down as a raw, brutal, and pulse-pounding landmark in the history of fight scenes....If a fight scene doesn't make you feel like you're a part of it, so that it quickens your heartbeat and your breathing, then it's a failure." (Scanners, Sept. 10, 2007) And yes, Eastern Promises joins that very small list of modern movies-- They Live, Girlfight, Fight ... Read More Rating: - Subdued, Intense, Fast-PacedI really enjoyed Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, so when I heard they were teaming up again for Eastern Promises, I had very high expectations. Eastern Promises offers a powerfully subdued yet intense performance by Viggo Mortensen as a Russian driver/enforcer working his way up London's most notorious Russian crime family. Mortensen has proven himself a chameleon with the roles he's chosen of late, and I had no trouble accepting him as a merciless, cold, calculating ... Read More Rating: - With the Cronenberg touchFor whereas "A History of Violence" was relevant, horrifying, masterful, suspenseful and haunting (staying in your mind long after its end; getting under your very nerves even), "Eastern Promises" is merely a passable story served up with the Cronenberg touch. Its ending even felt a little incomplete to me, a few elements unexplained (and not in a good, open-ended way). But against all other contenders out there this season, it's worth a look 
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