It's a senseless, tasteless and demented postmodern noir that has about as much class as a gimpy $10 Times Square hooker.
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05/11/08
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.... [More]
Starring: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis
Director: Peter Medak
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Reviews for Romeo Is Bleeding
This is a battle-of-the-sexes movie played out at such a pitch of pervsity and amorality that it ultimately becomes rather laughable.
04/09/08
[It's] never content with one cliche when it can shovel on ten.
04/09/08
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.
04/09/08
The far-fetched plotting eventually goes so far over the top that pic flirts with inventing a new genre of film noir camp.
04/09/08
Top CriticIt would be facile to say it substitutes style for content; actually, it substitutes stylishness for style.
04/09/08
Top CriticStylistic but ultimately unsatisfying.
04/09/08
Top CriticAn underrated gem. Gary Oldman is amazing.
02/21/08
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.
01/31/07
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.
06/24/06
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10/05/05
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09/19/04
Perversely fascinating. Solid direction from Peter Medak.
08/18/04
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03/27/04
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02/08/04
No review available.
07/02/03
Offbeat noir buoyed mostly by its offbeat actors
06/19/03
Cynicism, greed and wonderfully florid dialogue radiate throughout every scene in director Peter Medak's quirky and constantly inventive new film noir.
05/20/03
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.
05/20/03
Top CriticOlin is one of the most vile female protagonists to ever walk out on a screen. Made little chinchillas run up and down my spine.
04/22/03
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