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80Has a great look and an edgy feel, along with some broad swaths of humor.
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75This is not for the Merchant-Ivory crowd, but action fans will feel their pulses quicken.
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70A canny, ingeniously crafted guilty pleasure.
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70Doesn't even come close to being a good movie, but it is a lot of fun.
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70Who needs iambic pentameter when you have Jet Li around?
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70May not have the best script in the world, but it brings Jet Li to the big screen in a way that all action junkies, not just the video-store geeks, will appreciate.
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70The gravity-defying harness maneuvers popularized in the U.S. with "The Matrix" -- ... look really cool, but seem out of place in a realistic gang-style action movie.
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70Although Romeo Must Die sets new standards for action films, the action drowns to a predictable and ridiculous plot.
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67Doesn't take advantage of its own possibilities, either as a hard-boiled gangland battle or as a soft-boiled, interracial Shakespearean love story.
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63A plodding, play-it-safe rendition of "The Family Feud."
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63The reason to sit through its uninspired, formulaic moves, however, is its half-dozen spectacular fight sequences.
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60Doesn't touch (Li's Hong Kong movies). But it is trying something clever.
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60The hinted romance, featuring Aaliyah, makes for some decent drama and some fine comedy.
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58In fact, when not kicking butt, (Li)'s kind of a blank spot in the center of the screen.
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50Li is a phenomenon.
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50Just don't think about what's going on, and you should be OK.
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50Aspires to rise above the conventional drugs-and-action genre and succeeds about half the time.
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50Sadly, if this movie was a fight, they'd have stopped it.
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50Based on "Romeo and Juliet" the way a martini is "based" on vermouth.
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49Li's light touch and explosive fighting skills deserve a better vehicle than this overcooked pot of New Jack suey.
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42To be fair, the film is trash and doesn't aspire to very much, but it's bad trash -- inept -- and that really isn't forgivable.
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40Then there's the utter lack of sexual chemistry between Li and Aaliyah, sucking all the urgency out of the relationship between the star-crossed lovers.
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40The fight scenes are splendidly choreographed...but they're shot in that grating, thoroughly American flashcut style that leaves you wondering just who the hell is hitting who.
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38(Li)'s scenes are so clearly computer-aided that his moves are about as impressive as Bugs Bunny doing the same.
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38Between fights, the film can't even rely on the luxury of Lindo, Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong, Rottweiler rapper DMX or the scary Henry O as Han's father to make it watchable - the dialogue is wreaking more havoc than Li.
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30The wall-to-wall rap score is as kinetic as the acrobatic fight choreography, and nothing else matters.
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25So needlessly convoluted, so crammed with subplots within subplots, it simply forgets about its gangland "Romeo & Juliet" premise.
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