Romeo Is Bleeding (Widescreen): Amazon.ca: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Wallace Wood, Juliette Lewis, David Proval, Will Patton, Gene Canfield, Larry Joshua, Michael Wincott, William Duff-Griffin, James Cromwell, Paul Butler, Dariusz Wolski, Peter Medak, Eric Fellner, Hilary Henkin, Michael Flynn, Paul Webster, Tim Bevan: DVD

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Romeo Is Bleeding is the flawed black comedy from director Peter Medak (The Krays) about a bad cop who slowly gets his due. Gary Oldman plays yet another quirky character, this time a New York detective on the take. His life goes haywire as he squares off with a Russian hit woman. Despite an intriguing cast and great dialogue, the movie becomes a bit too eccentric for its own good as several actors have nothing to do. The high point is Lena Olin, who finally has a role she can sink her teeth into: her zesty, monstrous assassin, Mona Demarkov, is one of the great movie villains. --Doug Thomas

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4.0 out of 5 stars Non-linear noir thriller fuelled with temptation and regret, Mar 5 2006

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Torval Mork (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
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This macabre 90's noir offering lures us into Oldman's sorrowful tale of temptation and it's resulting regret. His narration provides a comic bedfellow, and the Mark Isham soundtrack (with some great vocal pieces courtesy of A.J. Croce) adds punctuation to many of the vignettes. I particularly enjoyed the frequent instances I was caught off-guard and injected with a dose of terror, moments for the most part due in part to Lena Olin's performance as the psychotic villainesse. This film was directed by Peter Medak, whose previous work includes The Krays and The Changeling and plenty of TV work. Scripted by Hilary Henkin, the story has a lot of flashbacks and flash-forwards that give little hints and bursts of adrenaline to the story when you're least expecting it.

For the most part a good - not excellent - film and a great opportunity to see a good enemble of actors. I'd liken some elements of this film to Frank Miller's Sin City - a bit less gruesome, but with the same edgy grit minus the animation and over the top violence.

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3.0 out of 5 stars THIS MOVIE HAS STYLE AND SUBSTANCE. IN THAT ORDER., May 25 2004

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Shashank Tripathi (Gadabout) - See all my reviews
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What a tragic waste of such a great cast.

The film's self-absorption with creating high octane noirish melodrama does it in. As though the directors have seen and savoured a lot of neo-noir stuff, which allows them to be sardonic about it.

The end product is shocking, violent, and more often than often simply over-the-top. That covers pretty much all that one could remember it for. Oodles of sexual games, sadistic antics and titillating come-ons. The soundtrack provides sporadic respites.

Which makes for a semi-decent flash in the pan. Problem is, someone lost the recipe.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Keep feeding the hole / Very dark movie, April 28 2004

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N. Damiano "UrbanJournalist@aol.com" (NH , CT) - See all my reviews
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A very dark film about a man's love, greed, and moral dilemma. Gary Oldman plays a crooked cop named Jack Grimaldi who is cheating on his wife, stealing money from the FBI working for the mob giving up key witnesses for a payoff. His character still has emotion and morals in himself which he struggles with and yet is still likeable in a strange way. He gets in a jam when the key witness he supposed to catch he's also supposed to kill. He comes up with a plan to have the russian sick Mona Demarkov fake her death by giving her a fake death certificate for money in return. But this plan back fires. The fight scene with him and Demarkov in the car is intense. By the end he is left to his own devices but makes it out okay in his own way. A story about one man's struggle with greed vs moral. One of my favorite films.

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