action-packed

Romeo must die is an action-packed adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless love story with martial artist/actor Jet Li and singer Aaliyah as the titular characters.

a 2000 American martial arts action film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak in Andrzej Bartkowiak's directorial debut

Romeo Must Die is a 2000 American martial arts action film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak in Andrzej Bartkowiak's directorial debut, and also fight choreography by Corey Yuen, and starring Jet Li and Aaliyah.

martial arts action flick

Most freely adapted from Shakespeare, 'Romeo Must Die' is a pounding-adrenaline martial arts action flick with a rival gang romance subplot that seems to have lifted more from 'Macbeth' than 'Romeo and Juliet' -- mainly that Macbeth's full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Tragedy

Tragedy is Juliet, awaking to Juliet's dead Romeo.

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After political (Raise the Red Lantern), sexy (Ju Dou) and reflective (The Road Home) films,... Most freely adapted from Shakespeare, 'Romeo Must Die' is a pounding-adrenaline martial arts action flick...

a great action film

Romeo Must Die is a great action film, but the characters and plot leave something to be desired.

of action movie

ROMEO MUST DIE type of action movie to back in the day.

on the usual Romeo and Juliet tragic love story

Romeo Must Die offers a different take on the usual Romeo and Juliet tragic love story.

features a limber Hong Kong action star and all the guns expected from an American action movie,

Romeo Must Die features a limber Hong Kong action star and all the guns expected from an American action movie, and sets everything to a hip-hop beat.

revolves around an African-American and an Asian gang whose truce breaks down and starts a bloody war in the streets of Oakland, California

Romeo must die revolves around an African-American and an Asian gang whose truce breaks down and starts a bloody war in the streets of Oakland, California.

love saga

The film is a love saga, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, set in violence times.

a musical

After enthralling young audiences in the city with Razzle Dazzle and Dear Delhi, the bar was raised last year with Romeo Must Die, an attempt at synthesizing dance, music and theatre into the format of a musical.

spaghetti western

The film is a spaghetti western version of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet.

a martial-arts movie also starring Jet Li and notable for a martial-arts movie's mainstream success despite featuring Asian and African-American characters in the lead roles, and few white Americans

Aaliyah Dana Haughton most well-known movie role was as the female lead in Romeo Must Die, a martial-arts movie also starring Jet Li and notable for a martial-arts movie's mainstream success despite featuring Asian and African-American characters in the lead roles, and few white Americans.

fantasy-thriller

This fantasy-thriller revisits the Romeo and Juliet myth in the way of a tale in the wicked world of the Mafia.

roughly into the funk jazz category with some sidelines into slow jam ballads, quasi reggae and trip-hop

Romeo’s music falls roughly into the funk jazz category, with some sidelines into slow jam ballads, quasi reggae and trip-hop.