An avenging cop seeks out his brother's killer and falls for the daughter of a businessman who is involved in a money-deal with his father.An avenging cop seeks out his brother's killer and falls for the daughter of a businessman who is involved in a money-deal with his father.An avenging cop seeks out his brother's killer and falls for the daughter of a businessman who is involved in a money-deal with his father.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 7 nominations
D.B. Woodside
- Colin
- (as DB Woodside)
- Director
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- TriviaJet Li came up with the idea to have Aaliyah fight the lady on the motorcyle during the chase scene.
- GoofsIn the motorcycle/car chase after Han and Trish find the dead Chinese. The reflection of the camera truck pulling the Merc can be seen in the visor of the motorcyclist.
- Crazy creditsThe credits during the opening of the movie are first given in Chinese characters and then are translated into English.
- Alternate versionsThe UK release was cut, the distributor chose to cut scenes of violence in order to obtain a 15 classification. An uncut 18 classification was available.
- SoundtracksFirst I'm Gonna Crawl
Written by DMX (as Earl Simmons) and Anthony Fields
Performed by DMX
Courtesy of Ruff Ryders Entertainment/Def Jam Records
Featured review
Romeo Must Die is the 1st and in my opinion, the better of the two hip hop/martial arts action films directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. The movie is pretty nicely shot and slick looking and actually is really well performed by the cast. The plot is loosely based off Romeo And Juliet, but don't expect anything artsy fartsy, this is an action movie with two warring crime families(one Chinese and the other African American). Aalyah is beautiful and gives a fine performance as love interest for Jet Li. Delroy Lindo and Issiah Washington give pretty solid performances as well. Russell Wong is a cool villain and comic relief Anthony Anderson is actually funny. My problem with the movie is the crazy wire fu sequences don't really work as well here as it would in Jet Li's movies from Hong Kong. I don't think Corey Yuen's fight choreography is bad, it just is out of place and not really suited for this movie. Thankfully DMX only has a cameo here, he was top billed in the other Andrzej Bartkowiak/Jet Li collaboration Cradle 2 The Grave and he was terrible in that movie. Overall, this is a pretty decent action movie that introduced Jet Li to new audiences, but I prefer his work in China/Hong Kong to his action movies made in the United States and Europe.
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Box office
- Budget
- $25,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $55,973,336
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,014,503
- Mar 26, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $91,036,760
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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