Eastern Promises: A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
I really like Cronenberg's early stuff and even enjoyed History of Violence despite its blatantly obvious 3 act arc. I couldn't really get into this though. Mortenson's performance is great and the infamous bath house fight is one of the best movie fights in recent memory but that's about it. The plot is kinda weak and doesn't make much sense, the twist is completely unnecessary, and the love subplot is both unnecessary and nonsensical. And we don't even get to see Naomi Watts' freakishly long nipples.
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