This tale of a corrupt cop whose past catches up with him is certainly stylishly made but is so confusingly plotted and so hard to take seriously that it's difficult to work up too much enthusiasm for it. Hungarian-born British director Peter Medak made "Romeo is Bleeding" in the US and it was a fairly typical neo-noir of its period. Gary Oldman is excellent as the dirty cop but his character remains utterly unbelievable while Lena Olin as a Russian hit-woman is straight out of a cartoon so it's left to Roy Schneider as the Mr. Big character to give the film a tiny touch of class. Otherwise it's watchable in its dumb fashion but it still feels like something David Lynch or Tarantino might have passed on.
