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Romeo Is Bleeding
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by Polygram Video
Sales Rank: 31901
Price: $14.95
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<I>Romeo Is Bleeding</I> is the flawed black comedy from director Peter Medak (<I>The Krays</I>) 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. <I>--Doug Thomas</I>
Viewer Reviews
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, his job and especially his life on the line. Neither his sanity nor his judgment was ever in question as he clearly never possessed any. His nemesis in the form of the female lead mobster Mona De Markoff(played by Lena Olin) represented everything he ever wanted but never had ie power, style, sensuality and ruthlessness. She was the perfect woman for him and he could do nothing to stop himself from gravitating towards her into a debauched and downward spiral of corruption, criminality, unabated sexual attraction and ultimate self destruction.
Over and above this what appealed to me was the excellent photography, lighting and sylishness of the film and the sensitivity of the script which could only have been written by a woman. I love this film!!!!!!
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