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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Peter Medak
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Actors:
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Michael Wincott,
Paul Butler,
Gene Canfield,
Victoria Bastel,
Wallace Wood,
William Duff-Griffin,
Gary Oldman,
Juliette Lewis,
David Proval,
Will Patton,
Larry Joshua,
Lena Olin,
James Cromwell,
Annabella Sciorra,
Tony Sirico
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Duration:
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100 min.
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Rating:
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(6.3/10)106.5
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Plot Summary:
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A bribe Callow York watch officer's double life as a witness protection guard, and as a mafia informant, begins to seize up with him when he's bribed to obliterate a deadly female Russian assassin in protection while keeping his lifestyle a hidden from both his better half and teenage mistress.
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Tags:
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overlooked gem of a film
The films twists are good; it wrong footed me on more than one occasion. Well acted by all the leads; Gary Oldman was excellent as ever. Wrongly ignored by many people, this is an enjoyable double cross movie.
Tarantino meets The Coen Brothers
Hugely underrated film this one. Sandwiched between the sublime beginning and the hauntingly beautiful end is the rich dark centre of this great film noir, as good as anything ever attempted by the great Jacques Tourneur (Thieves Highway, Build My Gallows High, Night of the Demon). Add to that Lena Olin's Femme Fatale and Oldman's spot-on performance of low-life and you've the recipe for a film that in my opinion at least, stands as one of the great film noir's of the past 40 years.
Romeo Is Bleeding
"...[Olin's] never been this rip-roaringly full of guile and bile. She's a high-minded demented beginning..."
Romeo Is Bleeding
Cop Jack Grimaldi (Oldman) is as corrupt as they come, overseeing the oversee mark protection scheme on day while killing his charges, for the Mob, by dusk. He's also playing away from his spouse (Sciorra) with the delicously nymphish Sheri (Lewis). So a job to terminate nauseate-tail collision-woman Olin shouldn't be a disturbed. But when he discovers she's a ball-busting Muscovite screwing goddess with a killer yoke of thighs, you just know he's in annoyance. Medak's neo-noir uses malevolent sex, crunching violence and a neck-breaking chain of events of cross and double-traverse to suffer its ram-raid walk, only to crumble under the load of its own overkill debauchery. This is a fray-of-the-sexes movie played out at such a fling of pervsity and amorality th...
Romeo Is Bleeding
Deliriously bonkers, embargo comedy thriller, that makes smidgen sense but is powered along close to a unalloyed disregard for anything approaching A-OK taste and some wonderfully through-the-pinch back performances. Gary Oldman is the corrupt cop whose spring falls apart completely when he encounters psychotic Lena Olin. Don't irk too much about the niceties of the plot, however; just sit back and enjoy Olin's whirlwind act as the femme fatale from Dis who is close-by changeless. Oldman is equally good and there are fine turns from an exceptional supporting cast that includes Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Discretion Patton, Michael Wincott and Roy Scheider. The shoot noir and comic elements don't always be set, but director Peter Medak ensures that it's always an...
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