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Originally Posted by winjer
I thought it was completely contrived, predictable, hollywood garbage. The Nude-Viggo Fight Scene was breathtaking... just brilliantly done, and all the more powerful appearing within such an awful film. But other than that scene... boy oh boy does this movie suffer from an AWFUL script... any good director (especially one of Cronenberg's talent...) should have never even stepped foot near it in the first place.
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Your thoughts echo almost verbatim what a friend of mine said. We had a decent discussion/arguement about the film. He wondered if I watched the same film he did. His arguement and yours seem tinged with similar statements made about
A History of Violence. The person I had the arguement with about
Eastern Promises also loathed
A History of Violence.
I will give into the arguement at some points in the script it just goes too far into becoming very contrived. However, I still found the film worked incredibly well for me. Cronenberg took a script that was dull and flat and beat some more ideas out of it.