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Romeo Must Die is a 2000 martial arts action film that featured the first US starring role of martial arts star Jet Li as well as the acting debut of US R&B singer Aaliyah. In the film, Li stars as Han, a former police officer who escapes from a Chinese prison in order to investigate the murder of his little brother in Oakland, California. He then discovers that a war is brewing between local Chinese and African-American gangs in the city. The film also marked the directorial debut of Andrzej Bartkowiak, who previously served as the cinematographer on such films as Lethal Weapon 4, Falling Down and Speed. Bartkowiak and Li would reunite along with many of the same actors (and firearms) for 2003's Cradle 2 the Grave.

Mac (Isaiah Washington) is seen carrying a Walther PPK/S in an ankle holster as one of the many guns he carries throughout the film. With the two revolvers and the SIG-Sauer P226, that makes four guns he seems to carry around.

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A Cobray M11/9 is used by one of the Asian assassins on a motorcycle. It seems to be the same nickel-plated Cobray also seen in American Dragons (which makes sense because Rob Fournier was the armorer on this film and that one, according to the credits).

Loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo Must Die centers on Chinese and Black gangs. Though many characters could be considered stereotypes -- Black men are mostly gang members, and Chinese characters do martial arts -- they have a wide variety of roles as business owners, prison guards, clubbers, kids at a park, etc. Very few movies (much less romances) star Black and Asian characters, making Romeo Must Die part of a tiny handful of films to do so, including 1997's Cinderella, Mississippi Masala, and The Sun Is Also a Star. Trish is the only female character in a leading main role, but she's clever and independent, yet protected by men and treated as precious -- which is counter-stereotypical for Black women, as most Hollywood titles prefer to portray Black women as inhumanly strong, both emotionally and physically. Small missteps include a few Hong Kong scenes dubbed in Mandarin when characters should be speaking Cantonese, a scene where Han uses a fire hose on Black men (which recalls police brutality against civil rights activists), and a same-sex kiss between women that's clearly intended for straight male viewers (a man watches them kiss). The film comes from a White Polish male director, Andrzej Bartkowiak, but overall, its iconic cast (which includes Delroy Lindo, Aaliyah, Jet Li, DMX, and Russell Wong) makes Romeo Must Die an inclusive snapshot of the early 2000s.

Characters drive Mercedes and Porsche cars, a Ghirardelli neon sign flashes, a China Airlines plane flies through the air. A character reads USA Today. The NFL makes up a small part of the plot, and Keyshawn Johnson and the Jets are mentioned. The film also stars musicians like Aaliyah and DMX; their songs are in the soundtrack.

Parents need to know that Romeo Must Die is a martial arts gangster drama based on Romeo and Juliet that stars an iconic cast, including Jet Li, Aaliyah, Delroy Lindo, DMX, and more. It has lots of shooting and action violence. It's almost all bloodless, but it includes point-blank killings, a man hanging dead from a tree, glimpses of dead bodies, and a graphic scene of a man screaming as his palms burn and are tortured. "F--k" is used once, and there are plenty of uses of "s--t" and "ass." There's partial nudity when characters kiss with tongue and briefly undress on a dance floor, a bare breast visible. Though the movie is an adaptation of Shakespeare's famous play, it goes light on romance between the leads; they mostly just flirt and briefly hold hands. The film comes from a White Polish male director, but its mostly Black and Chinese cast, Black-Chinese romance, and Timbaland-produced soundtrack make Romeo Must Die memorably inclusive. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.

The film's fight choreographer, Corey Yuen, went to the same Peking opera school as Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and other martial arts superstars. If you're familiar with these actors, how are their fighting styles similar or different? If you're unfamiliar, what types of action did you enjoy or dislike in Romeo Must Die?

"Romeo" is a come-on, with cooing hip-hop songs popping up whenever Aaliyah, who's a natural, glides across the screen. The picture was conceived as a spotlight dance for Aaliyah and Mr. Li, but they have so little chemistry together you'd think they're putting out a fire instead of shooting off sparks. Mr. Li's filmography includes the revered "Fist of Legend," a picture whose awe-inspiring assemblage of flying feet and soaring fists was the basis of the mano-a-mano choreography of "The Matrix," and he's much better when he bursts into hyperactivity than when batting around coy badinage.

Instead of the snarling come-hither of Bruce Lee and his imitators, Mr. Li's round face takes on a beatific serenity before he goes to work on one of his Cinemascope beatdowns. Those are more dramatic than the rest of the picture, but they're chopped together like a ransom note, all slivers and pieces. You catch Mr. Li in bite-size chunks instead of the family-style helpings in his other work, like the bravura punches and stag's leaps of the "Once Upon a Time in China" series, films that raised the deadly swift Mr. Li to a myth. (They're worth seeking out, no matter what part of town you have to get to in order to rent them.)

Mr. Li beats up his foes the old-fashioned way: one at a time. Dreary as it is, "Romeo" is bound to be a hit, thanks to its well-selected and wall-to-wall hip-hop soundtrack -- particularly good songs by Timbaland and, yes, Aaliyah -- that's so pervasive "Romeo" might as well be a musical. DMX emerges as a star in the scattered proceedings. He establishes so much audience rapport in his brief time onscreen that the film suffers from his absence. DMX showed star power in "Belly," his debut, and he clearly takes acting seriously. More seriously than "Romeo" regards the able Jet Li. Sadly, if this movie was a fight, they'd have stopped it.

Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak; written by Eric Bernt and John Jarrell, based on a story by Mitchell Kapner; director of photography, Glen MacPherson; edited by Derek G. Brechin; music by Stanley Clarke and Timbaland; production designer, Michael Bolton; produced by Joel Silver and Jim Van Wyck; released by Warner Brothers. Running time: 110 minutes. This film is rated R.

The film is regarded as Jet Li's breakout role in Hollywood (though he had formerly played the villain in Lethal Weapon 4). It was also Aaliyah's first film and, due to her untimely death the following year, considered the best of her limited filmography.

From the producer of the blockbuster franchises The Matrix and Lethal Weapon, world-renowned martial arts master and Asian film sensation Jet Li stars in this hi-octane thriller as a one-man arsenal who escapes from a Hong Kong jail to avenge his brother's\u00A0 murder in Los Angeles.

Soon after the success of Lethal Weapon 4, Joel Silver was eager to get Jet Li into his own film, and Warner Brothers thought they had the new Bruce Lee on their hands, and decided that not only would they debut Jet Li, and even more importantly Aaliyah, they would use the film as a testing ground for effects that were being developed at the time for the Matrix Reloaded. What ensues is an absolute mess of a film that did everything wrong in introducing Jet to the USA.

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Silver's actors are commodities in the most ignoble sense of the word. He couldn't care less if his films communicate real ideas to sharp-witted movie goers, or even if his stories have any narrative momentum. Instead, he churns out insincere products geared toward predetermined markets that enable him to buy things with the money that he earns from the fast-moving footage.

It's no secret that African-American actors are woefully underused in the movies, so there's a good chance that he wound up here out of sheer desperation. But Lindo is a tremendous performer who deserves far meatier roles than this. It must be terribly depressing to move from "The Cider House Rules," with its tender script and multiple Oscar nominations, to a film where people get whacked in the chest and fly eight times farther than they would have had they been run over by a Mack truck.

(I had forgotten how small DMX's part was in this, but it's hard to hold a grudge towards the film, when antagonist Russell Wong is clearly having the TIME OF HIS LIFE being EEEVIL. Also, there's a moment where Delroy Lindo wiggles his eyebrows on screen. Have you ever seen Delroy Lindo wiggle his eyebrows? PURE JOY)

I didn't think they could mess up Shakespere any more than putting a mustache on Gweneth Paltrow and calling her a man, but here we are. Originally I had heard that the movie was simply unrealistic, but if I wanted realism, I would watch old man Norris kick white-trash ass in Walker. I like the over the top fight scenes, I like seeing martial artists on wires doing some crazy stuff the laws of physics don't even allow. Well, had that been the only fault of the movie, it would have been great, but it wasn't. There were two main things I could put my finger on and say "this sucked". One is the horrible soundtrack. Sure, I hate rap music in general, but this was particularly bad. Second was the lead female co-star who gave me a negative physical response (like a cramp or gagging) with each and every time she showed up on camera. The movie would not let go with the incredible amount of layer upon layer of evil subplots. I wanted to see a movie about guys flying through the air kicking the hell out of each other and instead I get two Shakespeare plots (King Lear and Romeo and Juliet), a good piece of Godfather 3, and one of the worst romances ever put on film. The fight scenes were very very cool, but like Mission Impossible 2, there just wasn't enough of them. To my count, there are only three real fight scenes and two of them are over by the 15 minute mark of the movie. The last one is all the way at the end. A good rule for this movie would have been to put in a good fight scene in every 7 minutes of the movie. Instead we go hours with nothing but a wacky football scene. There is one element definitely worth mentioning that sets this movie apart, and that is "Ultra Pain Mode". This is like a fast action version of the disections done in Three Kings where the camera actually turns into an X-Ray and gives you a close up of the actual trauma done to the body in medical terms. It is only used a couple of times, but it did have me saying "Wow, that is cool" even though the main characters are wearing Old Navy Cargo Pants. After seeing it, I would have to say that every good fighting movie and video game for that matter should add some "Ultra Pain Mode" style camera work. The DVD is a good solid disc with a 2.35. to 1 16x9 enhanced picture and a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack that made the rap soundtrack sound even more like nails on a chalkboard. There are a bunch of extra features including a 15 minute documentary on "Ultra Pain Mode". Aside from this very cool new effect in fighting movies, I would have to say that this might be one of the most painful fighting movies I had ever seen. Get your friend to show you the fight scenes and ignore the rest of it. 2351a5e196