Eastern Promises (2007)
88 %
Reviews Counted: 179 Fresh: 158 Rotten:21 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Consensus:
David Cronenberg triumphs again, showcasing the Viggo Mortensen's onscreen prowess in a daring performance. Bearing the trademarks of psychological drama and gritty violence, Eastern Promises is a very compelling crime story.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 14, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $17,114,882
Synopsis: The new thriller reteaming acclaimed director David Cronenberg with his A History of Violence leading man Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises is written by Steve Knight (Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things). As in the earlier film, director and star together... [More]
Genre: Thriller, Deception, Crime, Violence
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Director: David Cronenberg
Screenwriter: Steve Knight
Producer: Paul Webster, Robert Lantos
Composer: Howard Shore
Screenwriter: Steve Knight
Producer: Paul Webster, Robert Lantos
Composer: Howard Shore
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Reviews
Un ejemplo de cine negro contemporáneo realizado y narrado con gran precisión. Excelente elenco donde se destaca la notable labor de Viggo Mortensen.
Comment
05/03/08
Eastern Promises has a lot going for it, which makes it all the more disappointing when the story takes a fatal turn towards the end.
05/01/08
Poderia perfeitamente ter se revelado um thriller absolutamente convencional caso não tivesse, a seu favor, dois elementos importantíssimos: a direção segura e intrigante de David Cronenberg e, claro, a performance hipnótica de Viggo Mortensen.
02/22/08
David Cronenberg proves he doesn't have to use violence to tell a good story.
02/02/08
Surprising and rather suspenseful crime drama and the perfect follow-up from the director who composes a pleasing violent moral duality tale...
01/04/08
There seems to be no point to it all other than to craft an unsettling motion picture with some grisly close ups of throats being slit.
12/06/07
Though not as subtle, complex, or personal as History of Violence, Cronenberg's new film is a grim, taut, well-crafted crimer about the Russian mafia in London, as close to a genre picture as helmer has ever done.
11/16/07
Barbershop throat slitting, nude macho wrestling and eye gouging in a bathhouse, and far too willing underage Ukrainian sex slaves. A double vodka, please.
11/13/07
Its subtext, which is about sex and violence and the way one often dovetails with the other, and the skill of its making, render it gripping enough.
10/26/07
An orgy of slit throats, lopped digits and a naked fight scene that will tattoo itself on to your brain.
10/26/07
Cronenberg is his own master, still ready to throw in the sort of scene few other directors could dare.
10/26/07
Although relentlessly gripping, the film is more interesting than it is satisfying, let down by the script.
10/26/07
Despite the star presence of Viggo Mortensen, David Cronenberg's violent film about the Russian Mafia in London is a disappointment.
10/26/07
The David Cronenberg-directed movie — which caused outrage this week after being passed uncut by the censors — does not leave anything to the imagination when it comes to death.
10/26/07
Top Critic
There are interesting scenes, moments, ideas: but Eastern Promises does not have the sinew and boldness of Cronenberg's best work.
10/26/07
Top Critic
Accents are as thick as borscht, and vodka flows almost as freely as the blood.
10/26/07
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