DVD This Week: Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises: Viggo Mortensen is up for a Golden Globe for his performance as a Russian driver for a brutal Eastern European mafia family trying to keep a nurse (Naomi Watts) from exposing their prostitution ring. If you do a full-frontal fight scene, you get a Golden Globe. That’s a rule I can certainly understand and support.

The Heartbreak Kid: The Farrelly Brothers’ well-reviewed B.O. dud about a guy (Ben Stiller) who marries a woman who turns out to be insane. Quick turn-around to DVD for what was supposed to be the comedy hit of the fall.

The Kingdom: One of this year’s slew of war dramas that reality-weary audiences avoided features Jamie Foxx leading a team investigating a bombing in Saudi Arabia. The general consensus is that it’s an action movie trying to be more than that and not always succeeding.

The Brothers Solomon: Will Arnett and Will Forte play two home-schooled morons with no clue how to socialize with other people who are suddenly forced to try and make a baby to honor their father’s dying wish. Director Bob Odenkirk had the good sense to let Scrubs sad sack Sam Lloyd actually play a doctor.

Rush Hour 3: Brett Ratner’s magnum opus continues as Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan make jokes about each other’s ethnic stereotypes and occasionally kick things. Roman Polanski inexplicably guest-stars.