Big Screen: Eastern Promises

Not for the faint of heart. The infamous naked bathroom fight scene was more notable (to me) for its extreme bloodiness (I swear that one cut goes all the way down his spine) than a few random sightings of Viggo nekkid. There’s a throatcutting scene earlier that’s more like a “trying really hard to chisel off someone’s head with a not very sharp knife” scene.

Viggo is so solidly into character here, it’s hard to reconcile in your mind that this is the same boy who played Aragorn. Not a bad flick, a number of interesting items, but I didn’t find myself very engaged with it. More like a spectator from a distance than I usually feel in the theater. And a lot of people in this movie make really bad decisions. You wanted to take them into the hallway and try and shake some sense into them.