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Christian Bale's New Movie Is Getting IMDb Scores Even Before Its Release

Christian Bale's New Movie Is Getting IMDb Scores Even Before Its Release

The film depicts the Armenian Genocide.

James Dawson

James Dawson

Gutted for Christian Bale, his latest film hasn't even been fully released yet and it's already got a load of bad reviews on movie site IMDB.

Terry George directs The Promise, which stars Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac and is set during the final days of the Ottoman Empire, leading up to the Armenian Genocide that killed 1.5 million people.

86,883 people have voted on the film at the time of writing, yet the film has only been screened to the public three times - meaning that it is likely people are voting on the film for political reasons.

Here is the trailer for the movie.

Official trailer. Credit: Survival Pictures

Currently the film's rating stands at 4.1/10 with ratings polarised between scores of one - 55,144 of the votes (63.5 percent) - and 10 - 30,787 of the votes (35.4 percent).

The official synopsis for The Promise reads: "It is 1914. As the Great War looms, the vast Ottoman Empire is crumbling. Constantinople (Istanbul), Its once vibrant, multicultural capital, is about to be consumed by chaos.

"Michael Boghosian (Oscar Isaac), arrives in the cosmopolitan hub as a medical student determined to bring modern medicine back to Siroun, his ancestral village in Southern Turkey where Turkish Muslims and Armenian Christians have lived side by side for centuries.

"Photo-journalist Chris Myers (Christian Bale), has come here only partly to cover geo-politics. He is mesmerised by his love for Ana (Charlotte le Bon), an Armenian artist he has accompanied from Paris after the sudden death of her father.

"When Michael meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between the two men, even as Michael hangs on to a promise from his past.

Image credit: Survival Pictures

"After the Turks join the war on the German side, the Empire turns violently against its own ethnic minorities. Despite their conflicts, everyone must find a way to survive - even as monumental events envelope their lives."

Armenian Diaspora communities have long campaigned for the genocide to be officially recognised by governments around the world.

The genocide saw the systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, mostly Ottoman citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey, between 1915 and 1923.

However, there remains widespread denial of the genocide in Turkey, and the country has said the Armenian victims were simply part of the hundreds of thousands of Ottoman civilians of various ethnicities killed in war violence.

Featured image credit: Survival Pictures

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Topics: Christian Bale

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