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David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (spoilers galore)

Posted by dave c on October 17, 2007 at 14:37:22:
Cronenberg teams with the writer of Dirty Pretty Things for this story of the Russian mafia in London.
I have one major problem with this film.
It's heart revolves around a teenager who dies in childbirth, a 15 year old heroin addicted child whose death not only creates not a ripple in the hospital but so little interest that the midwife keeps her diary and starts her own investigation, a gangster can walk off with the child and the midwife can finally keep the baby as her own without anyone noticing or caring.
Despite the fact that this interacts with a police undercover operation. But you don't learn that until 5 minutes from the end, when it is in for one scene and then gone again, as if the writers only thought of it as the budget was running out.
Naomi Watts is her usual pale self and London is typically wet and grubby.
Violence is sudden and bloody but at least one scene is straight from Night Of The Living Dead.
A double cross/set up of an underling by the head of the Russian gang is signed so far in advance that you wonder if it can possibly be THAT obvious.
Not unwatchable, but I would not suggest going out of your way to see it.