Eastern Promises is a crime thriller directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen.

The film appeared on several top ten lists of the Best Films of 2007. Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four stars and describes the film's climactic fight scene as a benchmark that sets the same standard for fights as The French Connection did for car chases. The film retains an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

• "Ultraviolent, gruesome and riveting, David Cronenberg's transgressive crime drama, "Eastern Promises," may be one of the director's best recent films." — The Hollywood Reporter

• "A superbly wrought yarn set in the milieu of first-generation Russian mobsters in London that is simultaneously tough-minded and compassionate about the human condition, "Eastern Promises" instantly takes its place among David Cronenberg's very best films." — Variety

• "You walk out of Eastern Promises feeling spooked and sullied, as if waking from a noisome dream. "London is to blame," one of the characters declares, but I don't buy it. I blame David Cronenberg." — The New Yorker

• Rolling Stone: Eastern Promises Review
  • "Brilliant film. Brilliant director."
• The Hollywood Reporter: Eastern Promises Review
  • "Ultraviolent, gruesome and riveting, David Cronenberg's transgressive crime drama, "Eastern Promises," may be one of the director's best recent films."
• Variety.com: Eastern Promises Review
  • "A superbly wrought yarn set in the milieu of first-generation Russian mobsters in London that is simultaneously tough-minded and compassionate about the human condition, "Eastern Promises" instantly takes its place among David Cronenberg's very best films."
• The Los Angeles Times: Eastern Promises Review
  • "Expertly realized and gunmetal slick, Eastern Promises whirs along with perfect efficiency, but doesn't stir much in the way of visceral horror despite its penchant for treating the human body like a chicken carcass on a block."

• The New Yorker: Eastern Promises Review
  • "You walk out of Eastern Promises feeling spooked and sullied, as if waking from a noisome dream. "London is to blame," one of the characters declares, but I don't buy it. I blame David Cronenberg."
• ReelingReviews.com: Eastern Promises Review
  • "Eastern Promises is a routine crime drama that tries to have Anna's humanitarian mission give it an air of nobility."
• The Guardian Unlimited UK: Eastern Promises Review
  • "There are interesting scenes, moments, ideas: but Eastern Promises does not have the sinew and boldness of Cronenberg's best work."
• ReelReviews.net: Eastern Promises
  • "Perhaps the director set the bar so high with A History of Violence that there was no way he could equal it with Eastern Promises, but for him to fall so far short is nothing less than criminal."