Release dates
July 18, 2017
95 months agoVOD / DVD / Blu-ray
Released
The Promise release date
The movie The Promise is already released on Cinema, VOD, DVD and Blu-ray in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 17 reviews, The Promise gets an average review score of 53
The Belfast-born writer and director Terry George is most at home in settings where there are troubles, and sorry about the unintentional play on words.
2921d ago
Solemn, sweeping, and achingly sincere, The Promise feels like a film paved with good intentions: a classic war picture whose worthy message gets swallowed nearly whole by broad strokes storytelling and stock romantic melodrama.
2921d ago
As drama and spectacle, it’s not quite first-rate — I rarely feared for these characters or believed that I knew their souls, and George is too much of a humanist to wring real-life tragedy for cineplex suspense. But as a moral corrective and a call to decency it moved me.
2921d ago
One can feel the importance of retelling these events when it focuses on the right circumstances, but when The Promise sags with cluttered, obvious tropes that have similarly downgraded countless war movies before it, it’s a disappointment. If George set his sights on capturing the effects of this tragic stain in history rather than love-making, we might have gotten a drama worthy of the talent involved.
2921d ago
The director of Hotel Rwanda plows through the Armenian genocide in The Promise.
2921d ago
The Promise may not be the greatest movie of its type since Hotel Rwanda, but purchasing a ticket to this solid if predictable movie is a sure way to thumb one’s nose at deniers of the Armenian Genocide.
2921d ago
An Armenian student in Turkey, Mikael (Oscar Isaac), is engaged to a woman from his village, but falls in love with the glamorous Ana (Charlotte Le Bon). His biggest problem seems to be US reporter Chris (Christian Bale), Ana’s lover, but then World War I breaks out and Turkey’s Armenians are suddenly in danger.
2921d ago
Hotel Rwanda director Terry George takes on a largely uncovered part of history in this often soapy but well-intentioned and extravagantly mounted epic.
2921d ago
A-list cast can't quite make this attempt to be the 'Doctor Zhivago' of 1915 Armenian massacre come together.
2921d ago
Attempting to make an atrocity palatable to a mainstream audience, The Promise delivers the history, but undercuts its impact.
2921d ago
'Hotel Rwanda' director Terry George returns to genocide, with Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale stuck in a love triangle during the Armenian Holocaust.
2921d ago
Terry George is clearly and rightly outraged by the history he explores in “The Promise,” but the filmmaker underestimates the audience by simply playing that one note.
2921d ago
Designed to dramatize the Ottoman Empire's horrific treatment of its Armenian citizens in 1915, this fictional love story is an epic bore.
2921d ago
Weighed down by the worthiness of its intentions, The Promise is a big, barren wartime romance that approaches the Armenian genocide with too much calculation and not nearly enough heat.
2921d ago
The Promise simply turns this historical tragedy into mere background noise for a flimsy romantic triangle.
2921d ago
This big, formulaic love triangle set amidst the Armenian Genocide is weak, uninvolving and atonal history.
2921d ago
Stagnant, contrived, and oh so boring, The Promise is nothing but a perfectly good waste of Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac’s towering abilities.
2921d ago