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Eastern Promises
Really liked this one, well paced and well performed (Viggo Mortensen in particular) as Naomi Watts' midwife tries to find out the truth concerning a 14 year old Russian girl who died in childbirth. The trail leads her to people trafficking and the Russian mafia, and to our man Viggo who's a driver and friend to the son of the mafia boss.
David Cronenberg hit all the right notes with this, believable characters and his unerring way of showing the true brutality of violence. Good film.
Flesh + Blood
Medieval actioner from Paul Verhoeven, as Rutger Hauer and his band of mercenaries kidnap the fiancee of young lord in revenge for being betrayed. A young Jennifer Jason Leigh spends most of her time naked in this, using her body to keep Rutger as her protector within the mercs group. I first saw this when I was about 10, the bloke in video city rental shop didnt give a shit if you were underage as long as you paid up and this sordid, bloody affair warped my fragile little mind! Its fairly brainless but quality entertainment.
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Battle Royalty, 2009
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