Movie Review: Eastern Promises">Movie Review: Eastern Promises
To be fair, this interview is more a clarification of previous statements than a full-on review.
Previously, I’ve mentioned on Facebook and on this site that I left about halfway through Eastern Promises, and it’s only the second movie in a theater I’ve walked out of while it was in-progress since Highlander 2. It’s not Highlander 2-bad, folks. The driving reason for me and Santi walking out was that after sashimi and two bottles of cold sake (each), we were passing out. I think I was snoring, because Santi woke me up twice to say we should go, and the first time I was sure that it was an accident and wouldn’t happen again.
The first-half of the movie is about all we made it through and I liked where it was headed as a character study filled with dramatic tension. But it was kinda quiet and carried by a cast of characters not named Viggo. So all the action and violence I was expecting (after A History of Violence) never took place before I passed out. I’m not saying Viggo was bad in the film at all — I’m just saying the first part of the movie, he’s around but he’s basically window dressing. Naomi Watts, the Russian that runs the crime family and the dude that plays her uncle — they’re carrying the load.
I wouldn’t mind seeing it on DVD when it comes out. But drunk on sake — we probably should’ve gone to see Resident Evil: Extinction. That’s probably the cognitive level that would’ve kept me awake.
