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Summary: Eerie, moving, terrifying
Review: Most of the aspects of this film have been well covered in the other reviews; Gary Oldman's character, etc. Although the plot is occasionally lacking in continuity, one can easily fill in the gaps. I did want to mention the extraordinarily atmospheric music by Mark Isham, especially the closing piece; where you can hear the groaning and moans of the film's demonic beings - Jack, a relatively ordinary soul, finding himself in a world peopled by devils in human form like Mona DeMarkoff and Don Falcone. Another point: Jack Grimaldi, Oldman's character, is the name of a famous circus clown; I wonder if that was intentional. The dreams, the Hole, Olin's insane laughter, the shots of the dead in the swimming pool and the FBI agents ("those Feds didn't come out too good...") sprayed by DeMarkoff sprawled in the bloodstained room as the light fixture swings back and forth, Nick Gazzara's "stank like a m*thaf***! Hahahahahahaha", Oldman's introduction at the Holiday Diner; for me, this film contains a great many moments that are extraordinarily atmospheric, poignant and original. And terrifying.
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Summary: Great Pulp Movie in '90s
Review: Nice castings and great Girls that makes you snobically hard-boiled; which means the most dangerous villains vividly living in a just real town. Those screenplay by Hilary Henkin invites you into a day-dreams of the world of ordinary lives of ours. It doesn't seem like movies; just like a life of your own. How fine Lina Olin and Gery Oldman are performed their parts. I like this kind of unordinary usuality.
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Summary: great film
Review: one of the better movies of recent times. Some of the best actors, Oldman and Olin. It is a rare instance where everything works together and blends into a beautyful tale.
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Summary: Missteps, every step of the way.
Review: Open to the present, the story, to be told in reflection, jazz in the background, narration in the foreground. These days, this is the sort of composition left to late-night cable erotic thrillers. The HVAC man in suburbia, with a good wife, and family at home, he meets the rich, much younger wife on the job in the hills...Sadly the filmmakers won't stay down where they belong with this uninventive jive. They dress it up with a name brand cast (Gary Oldman, Lena Olin), and cut back just enough on the explicit sex to let you know this is not exploitation. Still in doubt? Toss in Juliette Lewis, salt-peter in human form. They think this is a main stream movie, a little legerdemain over an unsuspecting and gullible audience, a clever approach to psuedo-noir, a psychological thriller. Missing a key element? Throw in lots of off-color language and yelling to replace lack of story, or lack clever dialogue, or lack of plot. Seems I've seen this somewhere before, 'Roadhouse'? Are you listening Hillary? Could you turn up that jazz a bit? This is not Pleasantville, or even Cop Land..........it's strictly Amateur City.
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Summary: Olin makes the movie
Review: Outrageous, energetic, but flawed. The only thing that really stands out in this picture is Lena Olin's wild and brutal femme fatale role. The movie is outrageous and energetic only with her presence, which made up for the movie's odvious attempt to become another "Last Seduction". I would watch this movie just to see Olin go buckwild on Oldman's character! Other than that, If you want to see a good movie of this genre, I suggest Pulp Fiction.
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Summary: Excellent movie
Review: Plenty of action, violence, sex and a very twisted storyline. I consider it to be one of the cherries in my collection. Not a date film, by ANY stetch of the imagination!
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Summary: Romeo Is Bleeding From His Foot: A Compelling Thriller
Review: REVIEW BY NICK EVANGELISTA:
The Female Villian in this film is spooky beyond words. You just have to see her. This film works from start to finish.
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Summary: Cutting of one crucial scene ruined the whole movie for me.
Review: Romeo is Bleeding could have been a classic as a new film noir. The plot line was thrilling, and Lena Olin was particularly mysterious and devious as a Russian hitwoman. Needless to say, Gary Oldman's perfomance was stellar as the duplicitous cop. However, the DVD version cuts a very crucial scene. I saw this movie at the theatre when it was released. There is a scene in which, after Gary Oldman shoots Lena Olin in the arm, instead of going to a hospital, crashed his car, runs away from him (handcuffed, no less),then she cuts off her own arm. This scene was brutally shocking, but it augmented the sinister dynmaic of Lena Olin's character, and it explained how she became armless. Also this scene put the viewer on the edge of his seat anxiously awaiting subsequent scenes. Cutting this scene caused such incongruity because in the scene where Gary Oldman and Lena Oldman crash the car, she fights with him and then runs away, hands cuffed behind her back. The movie immediately cuts to a scene in which here arm is missing, with nothing in between--no explanation for the missing arm. Anyone who hasn't seen the movie before is going to be confused. The viewer will be left wondering what the heck happened to her arm. I have been unable to find the uncut version. If anybody out there knows where I can find one, please let me know. That was a bad scene to edit.
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Summary: Supercool, gnarly, rad and all the rest.
Review: Romeo is Bleeding is one of my favorite flicks for many reasons. It has action, drama, romance and tons of bleeding. If you like wholesome dismemberment wrapped up in a thrilling plot involving a crooked cop (Gary Oldman) with a thirst for money earned the "easy way". Buy this flick, sit back in your chair, cover yourself in vaseline and keep your .45 close, because this is one cool flick.
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Summary: Lena Olin's Best Film
Review: This film can be seen a number of times and still be enjoyed. Olin plays a Russian Mobster who seduces Gary Oldman into a world of hell. With sex and the promise of millions Oldman's life as a police officer slips rapidly. He betrays his wife and hooker girlfriend played by Juliet Luis. Without giving the story away I have to say this one is a keeper. Buy it.
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