Increasingly, I find myself losing patience with movies that fill themselves with violence and gore.
Eastern Promises could have been a great movie. The directing is fine, the setting visually appealing and the acting is extrememly good. I stopped watching it after about twenty minutes. Every few minutes, there is a scene filled with gore and the gore prevented me from enjoying what should have been an otherwise great film.
I think this sort of film begs the question, "Who is the sort of person who wants blood over a good story?" Is it some jevenile mindset? Or is it a severe desensitisation to what we should find horrifying?