This studiously garish underworld thriller centers on a furtive, hedonistic New York City cop whose difining trait is his complete lack of scruples. Jack Grimaldi (Oldman) makes blood money on the side by revealing the interim locations of Witness Protection Program volunteers to the mob. If you’re wondering how Jack gets away with this you’re already demonstrating more logic than Romeo is Bleeding, a movie whose helter-skelter plot is held together less by substance than by “poetic” dollops of mood and sensation.
Many of the thrills come from Olin, who plays a mob assassin. Flashing killer legs and a killer smile, she’s everything you want in a femme fatale. Yet instead of coaxing a character out of Olin’s ret-hot seggestiveness, she’s turned into a ruthless psycho avenger. What begins as a fable of corrupt ambition becomes an ugly carnival of mayhem.
Many of the thrills come from Olin, who plays a mob assassin. Flashing killer legs and a killer smile, she’s everything you want in a femme fatale. Yet instead of coaxing a character out of Olin’s ret-hot seggestiveness, she’s turned into a ruthless psycho avenger. What begins as a fable of corrupt ambition becomes an ugly carnival of mayhem.
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