Ang Lee says training is key to revive movie industry
http://english.www.gov.tw/TaiwanHeadlin ... rdid=94388

Real airhead: Cecilia Cheung in Chen Kaige's The Promise
http://www.hour.ca/film/film.aspx?iIDArticle=9044
NY Sun - Grady Hendrix on The Promise
http://www.nysun.com/article/32216
A Fateful Promise
http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=17671
Chinese action-romance film is a broken 'Promise'
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/14506015.htm
The Promise: House of flying tigers
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Conten ... 9483191630
In Chen Kaige's 'Promise,' Waiting for Winter to Follow Spring
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/movie ... ref=slogin

A Broadway impressario, when asked what "mixed" reviews meant said "Good and lousy", which pretty much covers the waterfront for "The Promise".

Here is a review from the Los Angles Times, picked up by The Detroit News, which may be the most over the top encomium disguised as a review I have ever read.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar ... 50411/1034