everything go terribly wrong in this steam pile of garbage . i could hardly believe this be by the same director of the emperor and the assassin . the cgi be awful . the palace look like it be from an 80 movie like tron . the run scene look like a car drive scene from the 50 where you have a glaringly obvious fake background in the rear window . the editing be horrible as well . jump cut have a certain role in the visual language of movie and whether indicate frantic behavior ( the elevator scene in revolver ) and show something happen over time ( somebody wait in a room ) and or even cut to the beat of the music ( the intro to scratch and the intro to boiler room ) . there be so many place in the promise where jump cut be throw in for no rhyme or reason . people be talk and and then all of the sudden it cut and and cut and and cut in the middle of their dialogue and like someone keep accidentally hit the fast forward button . it almost like the crew do not get enough film coverage and decide to get sloppy in the editing room and and say and eh and they would not notice . well and i sure notice and and it be so disorienting i felt like vomit . even michael adhd bay movie have good edit than this . on the opposite end of the spectrum and i have never see so many fade cut in one movie in my life . practically every scene fade to black after 30 second and like the movie be a compilation of tv commercial or something . this totally kill any kind of flow the movie hadn not already destroy . finally and many other comment have indicate the frustratingly illogical script . people do stupid thing for no reason at all . i be not even talk about movie logic and where you can temporarily suspend your belief . why be the girl run up the stair instead of out the front door to get away from the killer . ok and so that typical movie logic and which you can easily explain away with well and she be terrify so she doesn not immediately think of that particular escape route . anyway and the killer be chase her up the stair and so it make sense . in the promise and you have thing like an army send several hundred slave into a canyon to get trample to death by buffalo . why . do have them get trample somehow help the army . do it give them some sort of tactical advantage . no . in fact and why would the enemy even send buffalo through a canyon in the first place when the entire good guy army be safely position on the ridge of the mountain . the answer and of course and be that the director say hey and know what would be cool . a scene with stampede buffalo trample people to death . yeah . then there be scene over and over again where someone say and ok you can go now . wait . you can not go . ok and you can go now . wait . you can not go . ok and you can go now . i can safely say that best part of the promise be when the credit roll and because you know it be finally over .