Reviews

Eastern Promise is a graphic reality of the underworld of the East operating in the West. This movie offers some gruesome acts of violence which is performed with the minimum respect for human life. This is a portrayal which you can really imagine being totally real. The storyline of the Russian mafia and the tattoos that the gangsters get when they are in prison. They tell a story of their life. When they kill. How many prisons they have been guest of, and when they get their promotion in the mafia ranks, is a great part of the story.

A 14 year old girl wants a better life and career, moves to London with all the promises of a new life. A new life is what she gets. Raped and injected with heroin and then death. Is a brutally true rendition of what is happening in 2009.

Let hope the world is changing for the better and not always like the story of Eastern promise.

Good movie. Graphic violent scenes. Could disturb some viewers.

I liked this movie and the cast.

The Limey is not the best movie to be made but is a good movie. Terence Stamp plays such a cool character. He plays is role with such conviction. I would of like to see him with a better support in The Limey. The plot was quite good but a little predictable and far fetched in places. One the whole The Limey is a good around movie. Not too much visible violence. Not too much bad language and no sex, which is very unusual for this genre of film.

Because of the soft content of a gangster movie and the fact they pulled it off I give it an 7.

I like that story of a Londoner who had just finished his time in jail to revenge the killer of his daughter. The trail of the killer leads him to the movie world of LA.

The end of this movie where Stamp intends to track and kill her killer. When he actually gets the opportunity to put him to his end. He take a humber decision.

I love this movie. I have watched it half a dozen times plus. I love the story the cast the settings and Sienna Miller. I read the book a loved the book which has a different twist but equally as good. The whole story is entertaining. Daniel Craig play a cool drug dealer( if there is such a thing ) Sienna Miller is so sexy. I even the role played by Dexter Flecher as blagger. Jamie Foreman as the pain in backside wannabe. This was J J Connelly's first attempt a writing and what a first result. Congratulation J J you have a loyal fan who cant wait for the next one. The moral of the story is that Drugs are not the business to be in. You lost your life. Your Liberty. Your Girlfriend. and in certain instances your head !

This is a star studded cast movie. Friends had said what a funny movie and I had to watch it. Without swearing I can describe the movie with polite language. It was absolute rubbish. I am being very kind by giving it a 2 score. Ben Stiller makes me laugh just by looking at him. In this movie I wanted to throw something at the screen. It was bad ! Robert Downey Jnr again I am a fan but this. I don't know to say. I like silly humour like Aeroplane and police academy and I thought stiller would of pulled of a similar credit to these old time funnies. I read some of the positive feedback and I think these people must is on a completely different wave length but god made us all different for a reason.

This is a good movie. Action packed with some amazing effects. The plane clash scene is fabulous in a macabre sort of way. The movie kept me entertained through the majority of the film until the final fifteen minutes. I was glad to see the end of the annoying daughter of the spooky kid who wrote the predictions 50 years earlier. The movie was going well for me until she flipped and drove off with the two kids. Then the aliens arrive to steal the car and kidnap the kids. Then Nic Cage tracks the the stolen car and find the kids and then let the aliens just take his son in their giant space ship ( Really ). After a 30 second of a sort of emotional goodbye. Nic Cage lets is son go while he and the rest of the world disintegrates. The effects are wow. The story is good apart from the aliens. Well worth a watch.

What a striking film. Realistic with every sentiment being portrayed by this fabulous cast. Personally I can watch this type film again and again. Not the brutality of capital punishment but " to the bone " British drama that no other film industry country can touch. A chilling round of applause goes to Timothy Spall. What a versatile actor from ultimate comedy to this role as Albert Pierrepoint. The intense portrayal of Pierrepoints wife played by Juliet Stevenson was played so classically. There was a great moment in this film when Pierrepiont hanged his friend "Tish" played by Eddie marsan. The strong powerful bond between these to guys came bouncing through the screen. I really enjoyed this film and I only discovered it by chance in the weekly section of the video library. I love British Drama.

Great cast with a bit of a far fetched quite annoying storyline. The beginning was very weak, picking some random person at an airport to kill the governor. If you can get past the fact that the governors husband and his team of security are so well organized to arrange the whole assassination and leave main key principle in the equation (the hit-man ) to a complete stranger who they know nothing about.

Look past these points and sit back a watch then you can get through the movie and arrive at the end and think " that's not so bad " But on reflection it was. Clips with a shoe shine man with one false leg getting totally involved to help out and eventually getting shot, fortunately in his bad leg, which he then whacks one of the bad guys and knock her out with the false leg which she had just shot off. ( please !)

Again this is my opinion. I read other reviews that people love this movie. Well ! we are not all the same.

I rated this film a 6 due to the fact I only seen it ten years after its release. I had read the reviews and expected a lot more than the film delivered. If I had not read the glowing reviews I would have probably would have rated it higher. The raw story of a reformed former debt collector (Billy Connolly) and obsessive police officer(Ken Stott)who wants to give the now successful former villain a hard time. He pushes the boundaries of the law and events happen due to his obsession. Then you get the villain worshiping teenager who idolizes the former gangster(Connolly). He wants to prove himself and make a name for himself. As you may expect the end to the wannabe gangster is inevitable. There is some good hardcore violence scenes in this movie which could have been worked more. Connolly and Stott play two excellent roles and the casting is well suited for the characters.

This movie is without a doubt worth a watch if you like the Lock Stock violent type of movie.

It is a raw film but for me I would of liked to see more of the rawness come through.

Give it a go. Especially now it is in the weekly section of the Video store.

Daniel Day-Lewis plays an early prospector named Daniel Plainview based in American at the turn of the 20th century. Along with a friend they mine with there bare hands and basic tools. Luck strikes and oil is struck, but before the success can be celebrated his friend dies leaving a baby boy for Daniel to take care of. Raising the boy as his own, Daniel prospers.To keep going forward more land and oil is needed so Daniel along with his son go on the hunt for more land when Daniel is approached by a farm owners son.And for a cash donation to him he let Daniel know about a oil rich farm owned by is father. Daniel and is son visit the farm pretending to be camping and hunting.Daniel makes friends with the farmer and buys the land at a low price.But only agrees to pay and does not actually pay anything. Mining starts and as exploration is taking place an accident happens and his son is involved in the blast and his deafened. Daniel is mad and annoyed at first about the accident. Its not long before the boy becomes in the way so Daniel arranges for his son to be sent to a school away from him. The years pass and success continues but Daniels state of mind goes a little crazy. The son appears as a young adult talking to his father in his study. Daniel by this stage is very unstable mentally and verbally blast his son and tells him he is not his real father and throws his son out.

In the same study, the son of the first farm which Daniel said he would buy, and never paid for, turns up. He needs money especially the $5000 which Daniel agreed he would pay his father for the farm. Daniel crazed clubs the son of the farmer to death.

Daniel losses the plot !

Money and greed needs to be handled carefully.