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
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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 |
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This is a battle-of-the-sexes movie played out at such a pitch of pervsity and amorality that it ultimately becomes rather laughable. Full Review |
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2/5 |
[It's] never content with one cliche when it can shovel on ten. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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 |
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The far-fetched plotting eventually goes so far over the top that pic flirts with inventing a new genre of film noir camp. Full Review |
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It would be facile to say it substitutes style for content; actually, it substitutes stylishness for style. Full Review |
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Stylistic but ultimately unsatisfying. Full Review |
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 5/5 |
An underrated gem. Gary Oldman is amazing.
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C- |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Perversely fascinating. Solid direction from Peter Medak.
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3/5 |
Offbeat noir buoyed mostly by its offbeat actors
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3/4 |
Cynicism, greed and wonderfully florid dialogue radiate throughout every scene in director Peter Medak's quirky and constantly inventive new film noir. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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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