Romeo Is Bleeding

It's noir lite.

[It's] never content with one cliche when it can shovel on ten.

The far-fetched plotting eventually goes so far over the top that pic flirts with inventing a new genre of film noir camp.

It would be facile to say it substitutes style for content; actually, it substitutes stylishness for style.

Stylistic but ultimately unsatisfying.

Lena Olin delivers a bravura performance that overwhelms everything else in the picture, much like a tsunami laying waste to a seaside shack.

...Medak's film is something more than a cop thriller or action movie, but a meditation on not knowing that fate has caught up with you until it's too late...

The film comes across as being an ironic pastiche rather than legitimate neo-noir.

It's exactly the type of dark hearted nightmare all but extinct in today's landscape of commercialized narratives.