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Article: `Eastern Promises'.(Movie review)
- Article from:
- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2007
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Byline: Mary F. Pols
Contra Costa Times
(MCT)
In "Eastern Promises," Viggo Mortensen adopts a Russian accent and has quite a lengthy nude scene of the full frontal, full back-tal variety. Let me add _ before this bulletin causes a stampede at the multiplex _ that he shares this scene with a pair of knife-wielding, black-clad thugs fresh from the mountains of Chechnya. And no one appears to be having any fun at all.
Disappointing as this may be, "Eastern Promises" is still a treat. It's just the kind of movie we've come to expect from the teaming of Mortensen and his "A History of Violence" director, David Cronenberg: dark, suspenseful ...
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