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Romeo Must Die

2000

Andrzej Bartkowiak

Jet Li, Aaliyah, Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong ...

5.0

9,720

Action. Thriller An avenging cop seeks out his brother's killer and falls for the daughter of a businessman who is involved in a money-deal with his father.

	Author	Review
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Doesn't take advantage of its own possibilities, either as a hard-boiled gangland battle or as a soft-boiled, interracial Shakespearean love story"	NEU
United States	Bob Graham SFGATE	"As long as the Chinese martial arts star is in action, 'Romeo Must Die' is an eyeful"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[Li's]¡s scenes are so clearly computer-aided that his moves are about as impressive as Bugs Bunny doing the same (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Based on 'Romeo and Juliet' the way a martini is 'based' on vermouth"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Sure, it’s hokey. But who needs iambic pentameter when you have Jet Li around?"	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"You catch Mr. Li in bite-size chunks instead of the family-style helpings in his other work."	NEG
United Kingdom	Michael Thomson BBC	"Abundantly clichéd for its entire two hours (...) [It] finds freshness in the humour which director Andrzej Bartkowiak splices in at just the right moments. (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Great Kung Fu set pieces that are edited so fast that they are impossible to watch. Clunky and unoriginal, this does little to advance the new trend of martial arts movies (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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