There have been only three public screenings of the film, I was at the premiere and saw it at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this September and thought it wasn't very good, mostly due to the unnecessary love story added into the plot, but the Turkish Government's behavior here is atrocious. They are trying to silence the voice of ancestors and the pain they inflicted upon millions of people because of the genocide they created way back then. They have yet to recognize what happened, so a movie depiction is way out of their train of thought.
Armenian communities have been campaigning for decades to get some kind of recognition of the genocide from world governments. "In 2010, a US congressional panel narrowly voted that the incident was indeed a genocide, a decision the Turkish government criticised, saying it had been accused of a crime it “had not committed.” The Independent
IMDB has a policy to not interfere with any film's ratings, but sometimes exceptions have to made. Case in point: "The Promise."
My review for The Film Stage can be found HERE