On the recommendation of Sergey Kudryavtseva watched the film by British director Peter Medak “Romeo Is Bleeding” / Romeo Is Bleeding, 1993. I used to watch his early film, The Ruling Class (1972), with Peter O’Toole, and I liked it, so I decided to watch it. It turned out to be a rather naturalistic crime drama / melodrama, starring
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On the recommendation of Sergey Kudryavtseva watched the film by British director Peter Medak “Romeo Is Bleeding” / Romeo Is Bleeding, 1993. I used to watch his early film, The Ruling Class (1972), with Peter O’Toole, and I liked it, so I decided to watch it. It turned out to be a rather naturalistic crime drama / melodrama, starring this time Gary Oldman. His hero is a corrupt police officer Jack Grimaldi, who “earns” by surrendering to the mafia protected mafia witnesses who began to testify to the police on their own. Moreover, the attitude to this earnings is such a strange nature - he does not spend money, but puts in the yard of his house in a sewer hatch. Despite the fact that he has a pretty wife, whom he seems to love, he also has a young mistress, apparently, he generally has a weakness for the female sex and is somewhat restrained in this regard. Therefore, one day he is powerless to resist the sexy (for him) attractiveness of the cunning assassin of the Russian (!) Mona Demarkova, she was well played by the Swedish Lena Olin. With this all his big troubles begin, more than once he finds himself a hair from death because of this, but in the end everything ends more or less safely for him, but now he was forced to change his personality and go to hell to the horns where he sits and waits. . . I can’t say that the film is outstanding, but very curious, not bad Gary Oldman, but in some places I was somewhat tired of what was happening on the screen, all these similar scenes of seduction. I do not understand why this killer had to be made Russian with such a purely “Russian” name, as always in the case of showing “documents” with pure cranberries (I do not understand why they were shown at all, there was no special need for this), perhaps the historical memory played out in the director, because he is a Hungarian by birth, who fled to England after the events of 1956. Apparently, he was inspired by noir, making his film, it almost turned out, although still films about the mafia and everything related to it are best done by Italians. It's kind of like a cop movie.
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