Empires fall. Love survives.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon, Christian Bale, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Marwan Kenzari, Angela Sarafyan |
Director |
Terry George |
Screenplay | Terry George, Robin Swicord |
Music | Gabriel Yared |
Cinematography | Javier Aguirresarobe |
Editing | Steven Rosenblum |
Soundtrack | Available |
Made in | 2016 |
Produced by | Babieka, Survival Pictures, Wonderful Films |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report | CommonSenseMedia Report
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Genre | Drama |
Language | Infrequent, low impact |
Nudity | None |
Sex | NOne |
Violence | Frequent, moderate impact |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | |
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PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned | Rated PG-13 for thematic material including war atrocities, violence and disturbing images, and for some sexuality |
Runtime | 133 |
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Tense Family Scenes |
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Topics to talk about |
Suggested age limit 14 + |
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Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Lindsey Bahr Focus on romance detracts from genocide. | 10 | |
Die Burger Anika Marais 'n Belofte wat groot skuld maak. | 10 | |
ScreenIt Jim Judy The film feels like it’s doing nothing more than going through the motions, and it never engages the viewer as much as it should and probably could have. It ends up feeling a few hours longer than the 130-some minute runtime, and while it earns a few points for attempting to bring the Armenian genocide to light, I doubt many people will see it or that it will come anywhere close to earning back its production budget. | 8 | |
Metacritic.com 30 critics | 10 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 121 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Promise wastes an outstanding cast and powerful real-life story on a love triangle that frustratingly fails to engage. | 10 | |
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics | 12 | |
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation War movie tells important story but is flawed, meandering. | 5 | |
What the People say | ||
Metacritic.com users 128 users | 14 | |
Rottentomatoes users 9811 users | 9 | |
Internet 150188 Netizens Moving love triangle, leading to Armenian Genocide | 12 | |
Average .. 50% | 10 |