I just got back from watching David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises and I have to say it is fantastic. Viggo Mortensen manages to get across, with a minimalism that borders in pantomime, waves of fear. I can’t remember either a movie were I giggled incessantly for minutes at a time, Easter Promises has some absurdly casual and funny snippets.
I had read a few reviews before heading over to the theater where some of the main critiques referred to the violence and I have to admit it gets explicit sometimes, but it is so localized that it almost seems necessary. Just go check it out.
Tags: cinema
Heh, funny coincidence! Went last night with Angelica to see this movie as well. While I did find the violence a tad unnecessarily explicit, it was overall a good, different movie, and good acting on Viggo’s part.