Tagline: Every sin leaves a mark.
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Written by: Steven Knight
Actors include: Josef Altin, Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortenssen
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Length: 100 minutes
Banned: Nope
Review:
This wasn't at all what I had expected as a David Cronenberg fan but then again I've only really watched his older sci-fi stuff. This is very Hollywood big budget and trying to pull at the 'ole heartstrings I think (that didn't really work on me). It's about a kindly Nurse named Anna (Naomi Watts) who delivers a baby from a mother who dies giving child birth. Anna finds the dead young girl's diary which is written in Russian which she doesn't speak. Fortunately for her she has Russian people in her family to translate. Before they can help her a kindly but pushy older Fellow clearly related to some sort of Mafia offers to trade her the diary for the dead girl's address of family so the child could be put in the right place. He grabs the diary and of course doesn't offer Anna any help, though at least one of his henchmen seem to be helpful. Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen) seems to be the kind one in the crime syndicate but will they be able to get the answers they need? I actually thought that this was really easy to follow and a very obvious film really. It didn't offer anything unexpected (except a bit of graphic violence) and it seemed to be more of a drama more than anything. It wasn't intense, it wasn't thrilling, it wasn't even shocking or very creative. I really don't get what the big frickin' deal was about this film although I don't exactly think it's bad either.
Availability: On DVD & Blu-Ray
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