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Romeo Is Bleeding

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Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)

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Reviews Counted:34

Fresh:8

Rotten:26

Average Rating:4.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Jack Grimaldi, one of New York's "finest," is working on the Organized Task Force. He's determined to meet his ship when it comes in but in the meantime he'll settle for fat tips from the mob.... Jack Grimaldi, one of New York's "finest," is working on the Organized Task Force. He's determined to meet his ship when it comes in but in the meantime he'll settle for fat tips from the mob. Grimaldi -- as duplicitous in his love-life as he is in his profession -- leaves his faithful but impatient wife at home while he spends "quality-time" with his mistress Sheri. But everything changes when he meets sultry Russian mobstress Mona Demarkov -- recently apprehended for killing Federal agents and government witnesses. When Mona's made Grimaldi's responsibility, the beautiful seductress places him in some compromising positions. [More]

Starring: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis

Starring: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Michael Wincott

Director: Peter Medak

Director: Peter Medak

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Mar 23, 1999

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It's a senseless, tasteless and demented postmodern noir that has about as much class as a gimpy $10 Times Square hooker.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
05/11/08
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

This is a battle-of-the-sexes movie played out at such a pitch of pervsity and amorality that it ultimately becomes rather laughable.

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04/09/08
Channel 4 Film

[It's] never content with one cliche when it can shovel on ten.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/09/08
Phillipa Bloom
Phillipa Bloom
Empire Magazine

The cast tries to make up for the script's hollowness by hurling themselves headlong into the sort of bloody, sweating, spittle-spewing performances that can sometimes turn thin material into personal triumphs, but to little avail.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
04/09/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The far-fetched plotting eventually goes so far over the top that pic flirts with inventing a new genre of film noir camp.

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04/09/08
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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It would be facile to say it substitutes style for content; actually, it substitutes stylishness for style.

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04/09/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Stylistic but ultimately unsatisfying.

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04/09/08
David Hunter
David Hunter
Hollywood Reporter
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An underrated gem. Gary Oldman is amazing.

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02/21/08
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Film noir at its worst and most excessive, an exercise in style, marred by ridicuolous voiceover narration and incomprehensible plot points; Lena Olin gives a sexy over the top performance.

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01/31/07
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Hilary Henkin's script isn't as smart as it thinks it is, and only Olin's breathtakingly excessive femme fatale hits the right note of campy panache.

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Chuck O'Leary
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09/19/04
Fiore Mastracci
Fiore Mastracci
Outtakes With Fiore

Perversely fascinating. Solid direction from Peter Medak.

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08/18/04
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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03/27/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

Offbeat noir buoyed mostly by its offbeat actors

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06/19/03
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Cynicism, greed and wonderfully florid dialogue radiate throughout every scene in director Peter Medak's quirky and constantly inventive new film noir.

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05/20/03
Leonard Schwarz
Leonard Schwarz
Palo Alto Weekly

For all its promise, and for all the brittle beauty of Dariusz Wolski's cinematography, Romeo Is Bleeding eventually collapses under the weight of its violent affectations.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Olin is one of the most vile female protagonists to ever walk out on a screen. Made little chinchillas run up and down my spine.

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