Romeo Is Bleeding

Romeo Is Bleeding (1994)

  • 23% of critics liked it
    (35 reviews)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (7,400 ratings)

New York cop Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman) has a nice home, a stunning wife Natalie (Annabella Sciorra), and a sweet, if stupid mistress, Sheri (Juliette Lewis). Jack also earns extra money by betraying mob witnesses to Mafia-boss Don Falcone (Roy Scheider). Assigned to guard the viciously sexy… More

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Jan 1, 1993 Wide
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Todd McCarthy, Variety

    The far-fetched plotting eventually goes so far over the top that pic flirts with inventing a new genre of film noir camp.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    It would be facile to say it substitutes style for content; actually, it substitutes stylishness for style.

  • David Hunter, Hollywood Reporter

    Stylistic but ultimately unsatisfying.

  • , Time Out

    Hilary Henkin's script isn't as smart as it thinks it is, and only Olin's breathtakingly excessive femme fatale hits the right note of campy panache.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    For all its promise, and for all the brittle beauty of Dariusz Wolski's cinematography, Romeo Is Bleeding eventually collapses under the weight of its violent affectations.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Stella D


    films like this give noir a bad name. oldman's voiceover is irritating, the script is all over the place and the final result is more sleazy than stylish. almost quit on it a couple times but it kept promising to get better...then went completely off the deep end. the only… More

  • Anthony L


    Good film but it feels really dated even though it?s not that old!

  • Steve K


    Olin is fantastic, but the movie is overcooked.

  • Michael G


    Not as good as I remember it was. But of course, Gary Oldman was incredible.

  • Greg A


    Gary literally saves this movie from just being another crime and double-agent clusterfuck like so many noir films that tried too hard to be noir. Everyone has an angle and the jazz music ensues, I'll be damned if I don't like it though.

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