After a young teenage mother dies during childbirth, midwife Anna resolves to try to trace the baby's relatives. Guided by the girl's personal diary she meets Semyon, the charming proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant who impeccably masks his cold and brutal acts as the head of one of London's most notorious Eastern European crime families. Semyon's volatile son Kirill, who is also part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood, and the family's mysterious driver, Nikolai, soon cross her path as Anna accidentally unleashes the full fury of the Vory... "Eastern Promises" reteams acclaimed director David Cronenberg with his "A History of Violence" leading man Viggo Mortensen. My thoughts: I think this was quite a good film. I say "think" as I drunk one and a half bottles of white wine whist I was watching it, so my memory of the ending is a little hazy. The first bottle was from Chile and the second from Italy. They probably both had aromas of citrus and an effervescent essence that bought to my mind the mountain valleys in which I'm sure the grapes all grew, which came together to cloak me in a swathe of emotions reminiscent of the more earthly delights of an ancient forest after a summer shower. However, as I know nothing about wine (except that it comes in a limited range of colours), it just tasted of cheap plonk, like pretty well all wine does to me. It is however very easy to guzzle wine like lemonade. I felt a bit 'slow' the next day. This thriller has ...