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Reviews Counted:185
Fresh:164
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
Genre: Thriller, Deception, Crime, Violence, Theatrical Release
US 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... [More]
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Director: David Cronenberg
Eastern Promises reveals yet again what a master craftsman and artist Cronenberg is. His film is elegant in its ability to disturb. It serves up a twisted morality tale that flashes a fleeting and unexpected tenderness.
A fascinating entry into a little-understood subculture.
A movie whose images and implications are likely to stay in your head for a long time.
Top CriticLove him or hate him, no one makes movies quite like David Cronenberg, a man who can take an otherwise cut-rate Russian mob thriller and turn it into something absolutely fascinating.
As steeped in Russian flavors as a hot samovar, this fast, compelling story is also oddly Dickensian in its shadowy corners and twists.
This intermittently riveting and atmospheric film nevertheless ends on such a bewilderingly abrupt and unsatisfying note, you wonder if there's a missing reel.
An engrossing, politically conscious thriller with superior acting that doesn't reveal how little it's up to until it whiffs to a close.
[Cronenberg's] most straightforward and accessible movie since The Fly.
In the end 'Eastern' promises - and delivers - an intelligent film full of it's own brand of sound and fury.
Eastern Promises is the first must-see adult film of the young fall.
Expertly realized and gunmetal slick, Eastern Promises whirs along with perfect efficiency, but doesn't stir much in the way of visceral horror despite its penchant for treating the human body like a chicken carcass on a block.
Top CriticWhile the film falls short of Cronenberg's best, it still boasts Mortensen's authoritative acting and extraordinary commitment to the material.
Like A History of Violence, David Cronenberg's brilliant new film goes far beyond its thriller genre.
What it's really about, more than sensitivity for displaced people or social analyses, is violence -- hideous, gruesome, over-the-top violence.
As bloody good as parts of Eastern Promises are, as a whole it's a bloody mess.
The film's genius performance belongs to the venerable Armin Mueller-Stahl, who plays the family head with a twinkling eye and an air of avuncular, Old World charm.
Eastern Promises isn't particularly long, but it feels full -- full of tension and excitement and beautifully staged scenes.
David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises plays like a companion piece to his overrated A History of Violence.
A film that takes us beyond crime and London and the Russian mafia and into the mystifying realms of human nature.
Top CriticDavid Cronenberg's follow-up to A History of Violence lacks the theoretical dimension of its predecessor, but it's no less masterful in its fluid storytelling and shocking choreography of violence.
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