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- 1994
- R
- Gramercy Pictures (I)
- 1 h 50 m
- 1994
- R
- Gramercy Pictures (I)
- 1 h 50 m
Summary A womanizing, crooked cop on the payroll of the mafia is confronted with the reality of his double life after he is asked to kill a beautiful and ruthless Russian gangster.
Directed By: Peter Medak
Written By: Hilary Henkin
- 1994
- R
- Gramercy Pictures (I)
- 1 h 50 m
- 1994
- R
- Gramercy Pictures (I)
- 1 h 50 m
Romeo Is Bleeding
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Summary A womanizing, crooked cop on the payroll of the mafia is confronted with the reality of his double life after he is asked to kill a beautiful and ruthless Russian gangster.
Directed By: Peter Medak
Written By: Hilary Henkin
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
66% Mixed
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
9% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
50
25% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
66% Mixed
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
9% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Wait till you get a load of this babe from hell in scenes that are sure to put the gorgeously lurid Romeo Is Bleeding on the Moral Majority’s shit list. The rest of us – those who believe it’s children and not adults who need protection from movie mayhem – will be too busy relishing the riveting fireworks display from Olin and Oldman in this scorcher of a thriller. Director Peter Medak (The Krays, The Ruling Class) keeps the action stylish, sexy and fiendishly funny. The film rarely makes a lick of sense, but it’s compulsively watchable.
At its best moments, Romeo Is Bleeding actually is the wickedly funny, violent black comedy it purports to be. [4 Feb 1994, p.C2]
Romeo Is Bleeding just ends up flaunting its Grand Guignol outrageousness, rubbing our noses in its desire to be a gaudy hipster freak show. By the end, the film has become so mired in pointless sensation that it ceases to be any fun at all.
Worse yet, Romeo Is Bleeding - which is extremely bloody - just isn't all that fun. [4 Feb 1994, p.12]
Ms. Olin looks great, and she's a lot more fiery in this hit-woman's role than she has been when trying, in tamer films, to be nice. But otherwise, "Romeo Is Bleeding" adds up to much less than the sum of its parts. Mr. Medak fared better in the service of true, wrenching stories than he does under the spell of this material's desperate fancifulness. The joke isn't much of a joke to begin with, and it wears thin.
Henkin's vision of Mona Demarkov (Olin) as a remorseless, amoral, lethal, and sexually devastating (you should see what she can do with a prosthetic limb) arch-criminal is a nightmare come to life. But perhaps like dreams, the story works best when played out in the furtive dark spaces of the mind's eye.
Romeo Is Bleeding has a core of such mean smugness that the genuine shock is that the picture got made at all. It isn't so much that the film is violent, misogynistic and hateful. It isn't even that it so often lapses into senselessness and laughable pretense. It's that a certain competence has been deployed in the service of such degrading and juvenile material, that a group of actors and filmmakers and financial backers all said ``yes'' to something that ought never to have happened. [4 Feb 1994, p.15]
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Production Company
Polygram Filmed Entertainment,
Working Title Films,
Hilary Henkin
Release Date Feb 4, 1994
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating R
Tagline The story of a cop who wanted it bad and got it worse.
Awards
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 1 Nomination
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
