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Eastern Promises (2007) Rank 1 Reviews
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kids-in-mind
Crime thriller taking place in modern London: A midwife (Naomi Watts) helps deliver a baby by a 14-year-old Russian girl who dies, and she soon discovers through the girl's diary that she was ...read the complete Eastern Promises movie review at kids-in-mind
Plugged In
London, dark and wet. A young man—no more than a boy, really—runs through rain into a barbershop. The barber and his customer talk about the boy, toggling between English and Russian as the barber complains how the boy won't do a favor for him—one s ...read the complete Eastern Promises movie review at Plugged In
Houston Chronicle (Bruce Westbrook)
What it's really about, more than sensitivity for displaced people or social analyses, is violence -- hideous, gruesome, over-the-top violence. ...read the complete Eastern Promises movie review at Houston Chronicle (Bruce Westbrook)
Cinema in Focus (Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin)
Modern mysteries and classic spy stories combine both good and evil. What happens, though, when the hero of the story becomes evil in the pursuit of the good? Does this redeem the evil or does evil destroy everything and everyone?
“Eastern Promises ...read the complete Eastern Promises movie review at Cinema in Focus (Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin)
Digital Retribution
Let's get the synopsis – well, outline, really – out of the way so we can discuss the ideas that Eastern Promises essays; no spoilers here! After a suitably bloody and brutal beginning, we're introduced to Anna (Watts, in yet again another practically ...read the complete Eastern Promises movie review at Digital Retribution
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