The Promise

Long and boring.

يه روايت از نسل كشي ارامنه.بار دوم نميبينمش..

[url]http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/the-promise/[/url] Holy S**t, I didn't know any of this until after I'd decided to buck the low IMDb ratings and go see it. I'm a fan of both Oscar Issac and Christian Bale, and a sucker for historical fiction-drama anyway, and came away from it impressed with the powerful story it told, especially the last third of the movie. I thought it was mostly about a live triangle, and the three main characters are fiction, but the background story is n

Basically a modern attempt at Doctor Zhivago. Not bad

the story moves very sensibly, characters taking rational decisions, & no one getting exceptionally lucky, hence nothing seemed fake

This is really an annoying watch. The problem with this film -as with similar films- is that the tragedy of the past genocide deserves to be portrayed much more carefully, realistically, accurately instead of being executed as in this sort of Hollywoodised, commercial & infantile story-telling and dramatisation.

good movie

A film to eject more Islamophobia to history-ignorant people of America. Armenians are tortured, but why? The audience will have no idea. Only thing we see is people yelling "TURKEY" although there is no Turkey at the time and that's the reason? 63 point is for finally seeing a different historical setting in the hollywood.