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Eastern Promises a film directed by David Cronenberg

From:     movie reviews
Category: Films
Date:     26 October 2007
Time:     05:03 PM

Review:

Ok the naked sauna fight scene is cool, sharp knives wielded by swarthy chechens and viggo with his 
balls flying. The rest is melodrama with hyper-graphic violence, unnecessary but gives it a kick. The 
plot and the accents are ludicrous, but mortensen and Armin Mueller-Stahl (he always seems to be a 
nice looking old guy with a dark side) are good and Naomi Watts is an old fashioned sort of heroine 
nurse. Then again you cant really see why this film was made and by whom.


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