Eastern Promises
2007
**½
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Armin Müller-Stahl, Vincent Cassel
A teenager dies in childbirth and her diary leads a nurse to Russian gangsters operating in London. Cronenberg can suck the life out of any promising story, but this one doesn't offer anything too original or interesting to begin with. The performances of the multinational cast range from terrific (Müller-Stahl) to terrible (Cassel), but the English with various degrees of Ryussian accjent irritates consistently.
