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Directed By
David Cronenberg
Written By:
Steven Knight
Cast:
Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinéad Cusack, Donald Sumpter, Morne Botes, Tamer Hassan, Peter Rnic, Michael Sarne, Jerzy Skolimowski, Badi Uzzaman, Richard Waller, Gergo Danka, Mina E. Mina, Tereza Srbova, Josef Altin, Olegar Fedoro, Andrzej Borkowski, Cristina Catalina, Alice Henley, Boris Isarov, Raza Jaffrey, Yuri Klimov, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Elisa Lasowski, Liam McKenna, Igor Outkine David Papava, Rebecca Reid, Brice Stratford, Faton Gerbeshi, Radoslaw Kaim, Ksenia Lavrentieva, Aleksandar Mikic, Mia Soteriou
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Eastern Promises (2007)
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Movie Review by Jeff 
June 19th, 2008
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The story of a the Russian mob in London and how it falls into the lap of an idealistic nurse is the premise of Eastern Promises. Anna (Naomi Watts) gets mixed up with the mob when a patient who is pregnant dies in her care and she delivers the baby.
Anna then starts to try and find the woman's next of kin and that is where her search finds its way to the front doorstep of a ruthless faction of the Russian mob and where she first meets Nikolai (Viggo Mortenson) who is the driver of the family. She meets with the father of the family (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and informs him of what she is trying to do and drops the fact that she is trying to get the woman's journal into the next of kin, but that it is all in Russian and she needs someone to translate it. Simyon offers to do this and seems a little too eager to do so for her liking. She is then warned by her own family to stay away from the mob after her own Uncle, who is Russian, translates the diary and explains to her what is written. After she finds out the woman's story she is unable to suppress her own morals and stay away from the mob and tries to confront them the best way she can. She deals primarily with the driver who is tough, but seemingly gentile to her and her plight as he constantly tells her to stay away from "people like (him)".
The film itself has touches of "The Godfather" in it, not because it is a family mob story, but because of the craftsmanship of how the story unfolds. Vitto Mortenson gives one of the best performances I have ever seen with his carefully crafted tones and delivery, he most assuredly should win the Best Actor Oscar that he is nominated for. Eastern Promises, in my opinion, should have been nominated for a Best Picture nod and at that, it should have been a frontrunner. The movie is masterfully done and I watched it twice in two days because I enjoyed it so much. It is out on video now, so if you get a chance, give it a rent, or if you want to own something incredible, give it a buy, it stands up on repeat viewing and is a great story.
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