Romeo Must Die (2000)

+) The fight scenes are great and Jet Li is pretty much the star of this movie. The guy has always been a great "martial artist" and his fights scenes are nice. People may be put off by the many uses of wires but Jet Li has always been about putting on entertaining fight scenes as opposed to more realistic fight scenes.+)Russel Wong is also very good and is a cool villain. He looks like an Asian James Bond in a way.+)Aaliyah is ok too, but the best actor in this movie is Isaiah Washing, Russel Wong,Delroy Lindo, Anthony Anderson, and Henry O+) Some of the comedy is very funny~ The story is very silly but at the same time they take it so serious. It is about two companies who are trying to buy all the land so that they can then sell it to this guy in Canada who will then turned it into a football field for the NFL.~The modern day "Romeo and Juliet" story is also very sillyGood movie to watch for the fight scenes. Don't expect any "Oscar" winning filming here. This is an action movie and it works.

Asian gang leader's son Po Sing is killed which could potential start a war with the black gang. Mac (Isaiah Washington) is gang leader Isaak O'Day (Delroy Lindo) second-in-command. Maurice (Anthony Anderson) is guarding Trish O'Day (Aaliyah). Han (Jet Li) learns of the news and escapes from Hong Kong prison. He arrives in Oakland stealing a cab and Trish just happens to catch his ride. Han investigates and finds a murky land deal.This has a potentially good idea. Both Jet Li and Aaliyah show some acting skills but they don't have romantic chemistry together. There is no real heat in the relationship. Also shouldn't Han be called Romeo? It would make life so much easier. The story is even more complicated than Shakespeare. The Vancouver locations lack a certain edge. Jet Li and his friends get in some good action. Actually, this movie may have worked better if it gives up on the Romeo and Juliet romance. It should make Trish an equal partner in the investigation.

Romeo Must Die (2000): Dir: Andizej Bartkowiak / Cast: Jet Li, Aaliyah, Delroy Lindo, Isaiah Washington, DMX: We know from the title that Romeo must die for something. It could be an unpaid parking ticket, farting in an elevator full of strangers, or dumping his trash in someone else's yard. Unfortunately it regards none of those things because that might render the film somewhat interesting. Or at any rate, better than it is now. It regards a territory war between the blacks and Japanese. Jet Li enters when his younger brother is killed. After serving time in prison for someone else's decision he breaks out and searches for answers. After a series of double-crosses he befriends a young black woman whose father is buying off land. Directing by Andrzej Bartkowiak is fast with Li kicking ass about every five seconds. Aaliyah has promise but a broader role would have served her more justice. She is more or less the female contact, not necessarily romantically, but cardboard nonetheless. Delroy Lindo tries to keep the peace but when violence rules a screenplay then that is a near impossible task. Isaiah Washington is also featured but not to the superb degree that he had in Clint Eastwood's True Crime. Finally we have DMX in yet another role in this film that doesn't equal a good career move. The result here is an agonizing action farce that should die. Score: 2 / 10

The death of Han Sing's brother catapults him out of a Hong Kong jail to the San Francisco waterfront, where he vows to find his brother's killers. It lands him in the middle of a three way deal between "businessmen" who will stop at nothing to create a new money making stadium. Han finds help from Trish, a woman with close connections to the mob, and together they work to find their brothers' killers.....One thing that I really can't understand is that this movie was Li's big Hollywood breakout movie, and whilst it's not the worst action movie out there, the Director and star have made some astonishingly good movies since (and in Li's case, before) you really cannot believe that Hollywood gave them this vehicle, its a little disrespectful.And it's down purely to Joel Silver. Now this chap has produced some brilliant movies, he produced my favourite movie of all time, Die Hard. But after the phenomenal success of The Matrix, he became a sell out, and thought that this was what the people wanted.For an athlete like Li, its cringe inducing to see the wire work, it's really bad, and wreaks of Matrix cash in, and the inclusion of the Hip Hop soundtrack disrupts the flow of the narrative.But, it's not a bad film. Li is a brilliant screen presence, and Aaliyah shows that she could have been a huge star. The rest of the cast are good, but you just can't get that after taste of making a quick buck from The Matrix out of your head when watching this.