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Romeo is Bleeding
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792852094
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792852095
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed),
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: D1003246D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 19, 2002
Running Time: 110 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: February 04, 1994
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Editorial Review:
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
Gary Oldman delivers an uncanny performance (The New York Times) and Lena Olin is 'the most astoundingly vicious and sexy female villain in movie history (Variety) in this spine-tingling, erotic film about a crooked cop and the sadistic hit woman who lures him into a lethal dance of deceit. Co-starring Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis and Roy Scheider, Romeo Is Bleeding is a mind-blowing, crazy, outrageous movie (WNBC-TV)! Jack Grimaldi (Oldman) leads more than a double life: He's a veteran cop, a two-timing husband and a corrupt mob informant. But when the Feds enlist him to protect Russian gangster Mona Demarkov (Olin) at the same time that the Mafia orders himto kill her, Jack's world of greed and lust begins to crack. Complicating this already dangerous situation is Mona herself, a seductive schemer who entangles Jack in a deadly, depraved plan of her own!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Dark forces ruin cop
I bought this dvd about three years and have probably watched it over thirty times since. For me it's a great treatment of obsessive/addictive behaviour wrapped up in a sylish and sexy crime drama. It's about obsession/addiction for love,for sex and for money. Jack Grimaldi(played by Gary Oldman) is led by "that old voice in the back of his head" which rendered him powerless to his obsessions/addictions. Essentially he cannot function without living life on the edge and in doing so he puts his marriage, ... Read More
Rating: - Hot and Hard Boiled
Bought as a recommendation from Noirscribe on ABNA forum. Hot fast action and suspense. Great, characters, worth every penny
Rating: - "With or without?" doesn't matter, Lena nails it!
Want neo-noir? The real deal? Look no further. From the moment Lena Olin delivers the most potent two-word warning; "Keep lookin'," I've ever heard in film, to the bizarre and beautiful fade-out at the desolate Holiday Dinner, you're emersed in a dark, deadly, moral wasteland,inhabited by some of the most finely drawn feral characters you'll ever run into on the far side of the Styx.
Olin delivers a tour-de-force, as femme-fatale Mona Demarkov, a psychotic Russsian hitwoman, but Gary Oldman ... Read More
Rating: - Saw it.....Loved it.....Own it
I rated this movie as one of the top five movies that I have ever seen....You have got to see the scene where Ms. Olin escapes from the backseat of a car.
Rating: - Romeo Is Bleeding - Bogart meets Lucretia McEvil
The words 'wildly entertaining' describe Romeo is Bleeding to perfection. The narration by Gary Oldman takes you back to old Philip Marlowe films. And, of course, Oldman's portrayal of Jack Grimaldi is, as usual, absolutely perfect. He'll have you rooting for his "good-guy doing naughty things" character - and he does some really naughty things. Gary Oldman fans have GOT to see this one. Lena Olin is the most frightening, the most enjoyable villainess you'll ever see, bar none. She's simply fantastic. ... Read More
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