If you're able to sit through this more than once, I salute you. You obviously have seen something in this flick I haven't. 'Romeo Must Die' is an action movie that is strictly vanilla and there's nothing real euphoric to feel about it.
It doesn't go anywhere you haven't seen five or six times before. Jet Li's got the stuff, but his Americanized stuff has been iffy. After a wasted appearance in Lethal Weapon 4 and now this, I can only wonder what next so-so project he'll be involved in. He deserves better material. He brings his moves and some nice screen presence (ditto Aaliyah), but everything else is basically a demerit.
The story is a complete dud . Predictable at every point and there is certainly no room for brilliant acting in a cookie cutter product of this type. Delroy Lindo adds his respectability while Isaac Washington chews on the thinly written turncoat role. Worst of all the fighting pieces have no visceral energy. When they start to they're ruined by liberal sprinkles of noticeable CGI tinkering and wire work. I'm talking inhumanly jump kicking someone in mid air. Yeah that kind of silliness. It drags down the stunt choreography and the fights are likely why you bothered to see this movie in the first place.
It doesn't go anywhere you haven't seen five or six times before. Jet Li's got the stuff, but his Americanized stuff has been iffy. After a wasted appearance in Lethal Weapon 4 and now this, I can only wonder what next so-so project he'll be involved in. He deserves better material. He brings his moves and some nice screen presence (ditto Aaliyah), but everything else is basically a demerit.
The story is a complete dud . Predictable at every point and there is certainly no room for brilliant acting in a cookie cutter product of this type. Delroy Lindo adds his respectability while Isaac Washington chews on the thinly written turncoat role. Worst of all the fighting pieces have no visceral energy. When they start to they're ruined by liberal sprinkles of noticeable CGI tinkering and wire work. I'm talking inhumanly jump kicking someone in mid air. Yeah that kind of silliness. It drags down the stunt choreography and the fights are likely why you bothered to see this movie in the first place.