Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)

I loved this film. Mostly for the acting, but the story line is compelling and you can feel for even the most rotten of people.

This story is a great callback to the Film Noirs of classical film times.

Gary Oldman does an incredible job, one of his best IMO, as the corrupt cop, Jack Grimaldi.

Lena Olin is one of the most deadly women on the planet...if you see her, run.

If all this isn't enough, GO is hot as anything in his role.

So rent it for that if you hate Noir but love Oldman.

Cheers and happy viewings.

Fmovies: The ultimate Gary Oldman Film Noir! If you want to see a great thriller that makes you sit on the edge of your seat with out being overly gory, check this movie out!

Big city cop in "It", up to here! Great story and cinematography! Excellent soundtrack, and the weirdest cop story I've ever seen. I have seen it, I don't know how many times, but I never tire of it.

Everyone does a fine job of acting and Lena Olin is one of the most lethal women in a movie I've ever seen. She should been cast as a killer in a "Bond" film by now.

Oldman is great with his New York accent, and makes you feel the pain he feels when he loses a toe, or should I say, when it's taken from him. I won't say how, but he's got some bad friends in low places.

It's a love story that gets all f***ed up. But what an incredible ride through the film. He's up and when he comes down, it's crash and burn all over the place.

Rent it, buy it, just see it. The DVD is here finally, wish there was a commentary on it, but that's how it goes. Ciao 4 now xoxox

I had to comment because I simply can not believe all of the lower rating numbers this film has received; it's one of my very favorite films of the 1990s.

This film is not perfect, as stated by other people, Roy Schieder is terribly miscast (although I was more distracted by his obvious face-lift).

Otherwise, this film rocks. The rest of the cast is simply superb and I don't know how in the world Gary Oldman, Juliette Lewis, Annabella Sciorra and Lena Olin were not nominated for the Academy Award in their respective categories. Hilary Henkin has written a tight and compelling script and it's directed with sheer brilliance.

Gary Oldmaan is one of the best actors of his generation and nowhere is that comment more obvious than in his performance in this film. As Jack Grimaldi, his New York accent is spot-on. He creates a character which most people will recognize somewhere in his/her life and delivers it with such ease that you live Jack's life through this outstanding actor's performance. Juliette Lewis has never been better. Her performance is funny, touching and ultimately tragic. Annabella Sciorra is glorious as Jack's earth-mother wife. Everything about her performance rings true. But, it's impossible to even find words to describe Lena Olin's Mona Demarkoff. Wow! Beautiful, sexy, tough, cold-hearted, vicious and unrelenting. I'm impossible to ever forget her performance once you've seen it. I haven't seen this film in years, and I'm still upset that she didn't win the Academy Award and wasn't even nominated! When this film failed to get any nominations at all was the time I stopped watching the Oscars.

Rent it. You'll never forget it.

Romeo Is Bleeding fmovies. Lena Olin gives the best performance of any actress cast in the role of a villain with Theresa Russell in The Black Widow running a close second. It's one of the few times where a woman is shown as being just as evil and back stabbing as the men, instead of the standard whore, mistress, or long suffering wife. Normally one has to look to Hong Kong to find strong female leads older than 30. This movie is a must have for any fan of Mafia drama. On a personal note, if anyone has worked behind the scenes of this film, I'd love to know what model revolver Ms. Olin used on the set. BUY THIS FILM!

If you're looking for realism and seriousness don't watch it. Always complaining and whining about over-acting don't watch this. Go see Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant instead if you can handle the realism in that movie at least, has a bit of over-acting too though.

Gary Oldman, Lena Olin and Roy Scheider are absolutely brilliant and super-cool in this movie.

Beautiful entertaining piece of artwork. Extremely violent and very sexy.

I've read a few negative reviews about this movie. I suppose those people can't relate to this. Maybe they never crossed a line that shouldn't be crossed and never as a result of this experienced the inescapable downward spiral leading straight to oblivion. Lucky them.

Gary Oldman is a bad cop who doesn't know when to quit. His luck finally runs out when he runs into the best female movie villain ever! (If you've seen The Usual Suspects, think of her as Mrs. Kobayashi.) I won't say anything more, since knowing anything about this movie before seeing it will spoil it.