By coincidence, I just now returned from seeing  "The Promise." The film is clearly meant to be an epic. I agree that the subject is interesting and appalling: the genocide of the Armenian people. The photography is magnificent. Unhappily, it's downhill from there. The script is, at best, uneven. The actors could have phoned in their performances. The editing is distracted  Once again, the film was supposed to be an epic. It's not. It's a downer. The subject deserves a much better movie. Do yourself a favor by missing it.