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Romeo Must Die
- Review Date: May 7, 2003
- R
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- 2000
Common Sense Media says
This hip-hop Romeo and Juliet is awful.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this movie has very strong violence, some girl/girl kissing, drug use, and that it's really dumb (especially the ending, in which Han and Trish wander out of a house full of dead people, and the police completely ignore them).
What's the story?
In this hip-hop take on Romeo and Juliet, Isaak O'Day (Delroy Lindo) is a gangster who dreams of going legit. He loves his children, Colin (D.B. Woodside) and Trish (Aliyah) deeply and wants to protect them. But Colin wants to "be a man," and for him that means taking matters into his own hands. Kai Sung (Russell Wong) is the leader of the rival gang. Like O'Day, he has a son who wants to be a player. He and O'Day are trying to get the deeds to the shoreline property in their districts, to turn it over to a sleazy developer. When Sung's son is killed, his brother Han (Jet Li) breaks out of a Hong Kong prison to come to the US to avenge his death. He meets Trish, and they find that they have more in common with each other than with their sides in the fight.
Is it any good?
ROMEO MUST DIE is a tired tale of rival gangsters. Fans of martial arts will do well to wait for it to come out on video, so they can fast-forward through all the meaningless exposition and endless shots of people giving mean and meaningful looks at each other and get to the good stuff.
There are some nice fight scenes, though it seems an insult to Jet Li's extraordinary talent to trick them up with computer graphics. If we want to see people suspended in the air while they kick each other, we can rent The Matrix. Little flashes of x-ray shots of bones being crunched are an interesting touch. When you're fast-forwarding the video, be sure to stop and see it.
Explore, discuss, enjoy
Families can talk about racism and the way that children prove their independence, or maybe just how such bad movies get made.
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Teen, 17 years old
September 5, 2011
AGE
Fine for most teens
It really isn't very bad considering most R Rated action movies out there, but there are still some very graphic and brutal fight scenes which contain bone crunching sound effects. Also, there is a some strong language, mostly in rap music lyrics. There is some extremely brief nudity at the begining and some drug references. That's it.
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February 26, 2009
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its my luck to see this site
not very important
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Teen, 17 years old
July 29, 2009
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There's martial arts violence and some other bad stuff. But it's not too bad. I saw it when I was fairly young.
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Teen, 14 years old
April 14, 2010
AGE
Nowhere near R-rated material.
This review is a f*cking piece of crap. There's a lot of martial art fighting but none of its bloody, sometimes you can see the skeleton to see the bone fracture. Two girls kiss in a club with no nudity. Also there are only three uses of the f-word. Easily PG-13 material. However the bad is that all Chinese and black characters are shown as crime lords or gangsters, which is bad. Also the characters aren't properly introduced and the story is never explained properly so it is hard to follow. Overall a really fun movie that I recommend.
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Adult
August 4, 2012
AGE
romeo must die sucks ass
this movie sucks
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Parent of 6 year old
November 3, 2012
AGE
romeo must die
each other, we can rent The Matrix. Little flashes of x-ray shots of bones being crunched are an interesting touch. When you're fast-forwarding the video, be sure to stop and see it. Families can talk about racism and the way that children prove their independence, or maybe just how such bad movies get made.
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| Studio: | Warner Bros. |
| Director: | Bart Bartkowiak |
| Cast: | Aaliyah, DMX, Jet Li |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
| Run time: | 115 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | March 22, 2000 |
| DVD release date: | August 1, 2000 |
| MPAA rating: | R |
| MPAA explanation: | violence, some language and brief nudity |
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