Craig picked "Eastern Promises" based on good buzz. It's a pretty amazing movie about the Russian mafia in London, a kind of "Godfather" movie. There's some graphic violence (I looked away a couple of times), but the characters are so compelling and the story is so tightly woven that the violence shouldn't deter you from renting this one.
Viggo Mortensen brings a lot to this movie, from extra research to make sure it's as real as it can be, to an amazing performance, including a fight scene the likes of which I'd never seen before. Naomi Watts plays a London midwife from a nice Russian emigre family who gets caught up in a tangled web.
We'll give this one 1-3/4 thumbs up, with me deducting just a wee bit for the graphic violence.
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