Eastern Promises

[Ironhawk]

Viggo Mortenson and Naomi Watts:

Trailer - Yahoo Movies

"The mysterious and ruthless Nikolai is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna, an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally uncovers potential evidence against the family. Now Nikolai must put into motion a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution."

I lol'd at the "In russian prisons" comment in the trailer, just from all the jokes

[DickTrickle]

Loved the trailer, really looking forward to it.

[spronk]

Meh, we'll see. The assassin with the heart of gold, the innocent women who somehow manages to survive against the freakin russian mafia? I hope they figure out a way to explain how she isn't dead 15 seconds after revealing she has a diary from the dead girl.

[Thorpe]

I liked A History of Violence so hopefully this will be similar. If you like Cronenberg's work, check out eXistenZ (1999). It's no Matrix but I enjoyed it.

[chaos]

I liked A History of Violence, the sex scenes were definitely awesome imo because they were shockingly realistic, but I didn't get the ending. Maybe you're not supposed to.

[Brogarn]

Really liked History of Violence. Trailer here looks pretty damn good. Definitely plan on seeing it.

[Injektilo]

Early reviews are giving it 4 stars and pretty much every critic is predicting a Mortensen oscar nod. Really looking forward to this, i have high hopes since i kinda have a man crush on Mortensen since LOTR hehe, bumping for discussions sake since its hitting theaters this week.

[Candiarie]

So it's doing really well in reviews and I was worried that it wasn't coming to Louisville at all as rottentomatoes showed limited release, yahoo said wide release, and the Eastern Promises site said jack shit. But wikipedia says that the limited release was yesterday and wide release is next weekend. I'm all excited.

[dub]

History of Violence was good and while the sex scenes were somewhat intense, they felt out of place and brought the movie down for me. This however, looks awesome. Russian mafia inner workings are something I've always wondered about.

That being said, is it just me or is there a sound effect at the end of that trailer from Starcraft?

[Fedor]

[Burkex]

Okay I ducked out of work early and saw this movie. I thought the movie could have been EPIC like the Godfather but it was just very good (I will explain in spoilers how I think it could have been an EPIC movie). It had some very good/violent scenes and Viggo's role was very good- he steals all the scenes that he is in and if you didn't know who he was you would swear that he is Russian. Seriously, his Russian accent and look in this movie are amazing. Also there is a fight scene in this movie that is just incredible. I will not go into details to spoil it for anyone just saying that it is badass. I haven't seen a fight scene that good in awhile, some of you complain that the fight scenes in Bourne movies are too shakey and now I see what you are saying because this fight scene was done to perfection. I would give this movie a 9.2/10 but it easily could have been a 10/10 with a few tweaks.


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Ok I had 2 major problems with this movie that if changed could have made it much better. 1. The first small problem I had was they gave away the fact that Viggo was a cop way too early in the film. The second I saw the cop pull the Diary page out of the floaters body and the fact that they did not weigh it down I knew he was a cop undercover. It would have been much better if they kept the twist more secret till much later in the movie.
2. The second problem I have is that the movie just ended way too early. It is sad that movies try to be 2 hours long for the money. Movies like Titanic, Dances With Wolves, The Lord of the Rings, and The Godfather trilogy go for the gold and do not give a fuck about the length of their movies and I wish this movie had done the same. I would have loved to see another hour, well more like two more hours on the Russian Mob family. I wanted to see the father go to jail, be on trial, I wanted to see Viggo's char get in deeper, I wanted to see the war continue with other family, and then see the demise of this family. I really felt like I was watching a movie like the Godfather and then it just ended when Sonny died. If the Godfather ended like that too it would have been a very good movie too but not EPIC like it is. It would also have been nice too see some more of the interworkings of the Russian Mafia and less of Niaomi Watts. Basically I thought the ending of the movie was kind of weak, one where it just ends and you are sitting there saying WTF it is over?

[dub]

Originally Posted by Burkex

Viggo's role was very good- he steals all the scenes that he is in and if you didn't know who he was you would swear that he is Russian. Seriously, his Russian accent and look in this movie are amazing.

Considering he speaks around 7 languages, this isn't too surprising.

[Fedor]

[Gigfc]

Originally Posted by dub

Considering he speaks around 7 languages, this isn't too surprising.

Yeah, Viggo is a fuckin bad ass.

[Jenison]

Originally Posted by Gigfc

Yeah, Viggo is a fuckin bad ass.

HE IS VIGO! Ruler of the world...heheh....ugh...