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Article: 'Eastern Promises': Rating:.
- Article from:
- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2007
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Byline: Jan Stuart
Sep. 14--David Cronenberg's "A History of Violence" was one of the best recent movies that, by today's saturation standards, next to nobody saw. Set in a farmland backwater of Indiana, it starred Viggo Mortensen as a clean-living family man who guns down two vicious thugs in his diner and inadvertently exposes a cautiously concealed past.
For the better part of his mesmerizing new thriller, we are hoodwinked into thinking that Cronenberg has moved into new territory. While "Eastern Promises" also opens with a grisly gangland murder, the sun-washed open spaces of the rural Midwest have given way to the dank, rainy streets of London in ...
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