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
Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
23 %
Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 8 Rotten:27 Average Rating: 4.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
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. Grimaldi -- as duplicitous in his love-life as he is in his profession -- leaves his faithful but... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Michael Wincott
Director: Peter Medak
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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.
06/24/06
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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.
05/11/08
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
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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.
04/09/08
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It would be facile to say it substitutes style for content; actually, it substitutes stylishness for style.
04/09/08
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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
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
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