WARNING!!! For those of you who have not
watched the movie, the following will be a spoiler! Proceed at your
own risk!
OK, I promised to give my verdict of The Promise, so here it
is!
I give The Promise top marks for cinematography, for its
picturesque scenes, and for the vibrant colours used in there. And
oooh... oogling at Jang Dong Gun!! 
However, after watching the movie, I was very ... buay song!
Tell you why... but I warn you again, after reading this, you'll
kinda know most of the story already so if you intend to go watch
it, don't read on!
First off, there was this evil goddess who seemed to lurv seeing
her subjects suffer! She took advantage of a poor, hungry orphan
girl and lured the little girl with a life of food, pretty clothes,
and beauty but in return, the poor girl had to agree to a loveless
life - she will never find True Love and if she did, she will lose
it immediately!
What to do, the poor char boh gina was soooo hungry and was dressed
in dirty rags so, she agreed. The goddess then flew off in her
yards of cloth, very happy that she had conned a soul!
And then, when she grew up, she became a horny seductress, ever
ready to seduce men, esp powerful, hunky-dory men! She definitely wasn't a V - neither Virtuous nor had
moral Values and erm... of course she erm... wasn't a V lah!
Men fought for her, and she seemed to love it. She was ever-ready
to bounce from one powerful man's bed to the next. Quite the slut, really! Didn't
like the leading role, so, didn't enjoy the movie as much already.
I cried for the poor General because he really lost everything, as
predicted by the evil goddess. She seemed to relish in revealing
his future to him - that he'll lose everything and die with
nothing. Once again,
that goddess is eeeeevil!!
There were no other deities who made their guest appearances on the
show so my guess is that she was so evil she killed off all her
other Heavenly colleagues so that she can hound the limelight!
And then, there's this Duke (Nicolas Tse) who was very evil and
effeminate. Quite gay! He made his appearance with this long, flowy
robe with tiny flower print! 
And he has this fetish with feathers!
At the end, before his demise, he became a snivelling, sobbing
idiot, telling Cecilia that it's all her fault because when they
were kids, she bluffed him, and because of that, he never learnt to
trust and never experienced lurv and so, in the grand, theatrical
style a la Oprah's show, he blamed all his problems on a very
stunned lady!
Go watch it for the breathtaking scenes, the pretty people, but
take the storyline with a pinch of salt. In other words, leave your
intelligence at the door!
