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Article: Intense success; EASTERN PROMISES (18, 122 mins) Thriller. Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinead Cusack, Jerzy Skolimowski. Director: David Cronenberg ****.(Features)
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- Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2007
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DIRECTOR David Cronenberg is reunited with charismatic leading man Viggo Mortensen to explore the dark secrets of a Russian crime family in his intense and bloodthirsty new thriller.
Opening with a gory sequence in a barbershop that gives new meaning to giving someone a close shave, the Eastern Promises pulls no punches in its depiction of the brutality in London's underworld, as imagined by screenwriter Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things).
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...Byline: MATTHEW BOND Eastern Promises Director: David Cronenberg Certificate: 18. Runningtime ... s screenplay. The films have another thing in common - Viggo Mortensen,the American actor best known for being Aragorn in The ...
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