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Summary: Keep feeding the hole / Very dark movie
Review: A very dark film about a man's love, greed, and moral dilemma. Gary Oldman plays a crooked cop named Jack Grimaldi who is cheating on his wife, stealing money from the FBI working for the mob giving up key witnesses for a payoff. His character still has emotion and morals in himself which he struggles with and yet is still likeable in a strange way. He gets in a jam when the key witness he supposed to catch he's also supposed to kill. He comes up with a plan to have the russian sick Mona Demarkov fake her death by giving her a fake death certificate for money in return. But this plan back fires. The fight scene with him and Demarkov in the car is intense. By the end he is left to his own devices but makes it out okay in his own way. A story about one man's struggle with greed vs moral. One of my favorite films.
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Summary: Olin & Oldman Chemistry to Die For
Review: Ah what a guilty pleasure this film is. The pseudo crime-noir story Romeo is Bleeding is an excellent character study and a chance for multiple actors to chew scenery and develop some great chemistry. Gary Oldman once again plays a seedy, disheveled and dangerous cop [not quite as nasty as the Professional though, heh] turning in bad guys in protective custody to the tune of $65K a dime. A serial womanizer, with Juliette Lewis in tow playing out his fantasies, his world starts to unravel when he is tapped to narc on Russian hit-woman Lena Olin. Olin oozes as much venomous danger as sex appeal as she plays Oldman like a fiddle. Never knowing if her affections are true, or if he's going to get shot in the back of the head, Oldman stumbles around blindly as forces greater than he can imagine conspire against him. Violent but with a blistering black humour, this is a great, underrated film. Recommended.
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Summary: Olin & Oldman Chemistry to Die For
Review: Ah what a guilty pleasure this film is. The pseudo crime-noir story Romeo is Bleeding is an excellent character study and a chance for multiple actors to chew scenery and develop some great chemistry. Gary Oldman once again plays a seedy, disheveled and dangerous cop [not quite as nasty as the Professional though, heh] turning in bad guys in protective custody to the tune of $65K a dime. A serial womanizer, with Juliette Lewis in tow playing out his fantasies, his world starts to unravel when he is tapped to narc on Russian hit-woman Lena Olin. Olin oozes as much venomous danger as sex appeal as she plays Oldman like a fiddle. Never knowing if her affections are true, or if he's going to get shot in the back of the head, Oldman stumbles around blindly as forces greater than he can imagine conspire against him. Violent but with a blistering black humour, this is a great, underrated film. Recommended.
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Summary: Oldman always delivers !
Review: All I'm going to say is; if you're a Gary Oldman fan don't hesitate for a second ! He always raises whatever movie he's in a notch.Also if you've never seen "State of grace",check it out,
sure to please !
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Summary: If you're not a police officer, DON'T READ!
Review: Big-city police officers with basement-filth addictions will identify with much of this masterpiece. I did."Jack" has a problem; Money and Sex. When he's not getting enough of one, he seeks way too much of the other. Jack had big dreams. And, he was doing something about those dreams. Everything was going great, until one day...everything started going wrong. You see, there's not much future in playing four sides against the middle. Especially when the middle is, a mobster, an opposing mobster (female), a beautiful loving wife and, a hot luscious girlfriend. Jack is not just bleeding.....he's hemorraging. If you're a police officer, this IN-Service Training Film is a requirement! WARNING: HAVE DRINK IN HAND WHEN VIEWING Like Jack says, "Hell...is when you should have walked away, and didn't". Good Luck
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Summary: a great movie
Review: critics are often undecided until they see how others react because they are stupid take dracula 92 laughed at at first now those same critics call it the greatest horror movie of our times and say that gary oldman deserved an oscar well here u go again another great acting job by gary oldman whose a crooked cop trying to not let his loved ones findout when hes suddenly in a cat and mouse game with a russian hitman a great movie try it out
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Summary: Sensual and Violent Lena Olin is kinda, just awesome!
Review: Gary Oldman's attraction to femme fatale Lena Olin's character is amazing. Strong twist and turns in a forgotten film. If you like alternatives to the trash on the silver screen today, this is a great ticket. It is sexy, sensuous, foreboding, and corruptingly beautiful to watch a man in the throes of a middle-aged crises fall for a conniving woman in Lena Olin only to find she was more despicable than he. Definitely one of her finest roles other than the Doc in Mr. Jones (with co-star Richard Gere). -Felecia Constance Rowe, Chairwoman, Felecia Constance Rowe, Inc.
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Summary: If you dislike gripping, confusing plots - this is not 4U.
Review: Gary Oldman's potrayal of the corrupt, emotionally confused cop, who tips off the mob on the whereabouts of incriminating witnesses, is perhaps his best role ever. It is also his most under-rated role, since this movie never made it into major league. A clever, twisted, perverse plot spinning together love, trust, deception, betrayal and double-crossing. It's impossible to know when anyone is telling the truth. A surprise for the broad minded Tarantino fan. END
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Summary: Thriller!
Review: I am one of those people who have seen so many movies, and read so many books that I can usually figure out a plot line quite early on in any film. But this movie has so many unique twists, I was literally "on the edge of my seat" the first time I saw it. It's a wild ride as we watch Gary Oldman self-destruct as the corrupt, womanizing cop on the wrong side of the mob. Lena Olin's performance as the Russian assassin, is, simply, priceless. This is one of the very best "action" movies I've seen. I recommend it to Oldman fans, "cop 'n gangster" fans, or anybody who just likes a really good movie! And don't miss Roy
Scheider as a Don! I'm deliberately keeping my comments sparse,
because I don't want to give away ANYTHING about this movie to those of you who haven't seen it. Just see it!
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Summary: Just didn't do it for me...
Review: I didn't come into this movie with incredibly high expectations, but I did think I would find something entertaining to pass the time. I soon couldn't find much reason for all of the affection for this film. It seems to struggle to introduce each new plot point and lacks any real flow. There are some scenes of interest, but the movie as a whole fails for me. You can put a suspenseful scene in or a great bit of dialogue, but that can't support a whole movie. I suggest almost any other Gary Oldman film instead (notice that I said almost....look at an Oldman filmography and I think you'll know what I mean).
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