Romantic action drama based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, starring Jet Li and Aaliyah. When his brother is murdered, ex-cop Han Sing breaks out of jail to avenge the killing and gets embroiled in a gang war. But his quest for vengeance is complicated when he falls in love with the daughter of the crime boss believed to be responsible for his brother's slaying.
Jet Li takes his first starring role in a US movie here, playing an ex-cop convict who flees to America to avenge the death of his brother and gets entangled in a Mob war. During his investigation, he continually mixes with the daughter (played by singer Aaliyah) of the rival gang's head thug, yet the film-makers are too cowardly to take the interracial relationship beyond mere friendliness. Even for an American movie, the martial arts sequences are very badly choreographed, and there is far more hip-hop music and lingo than either plot or action. Fortunately, Anthony Anderson provides some welcome comic relief as a dim-witted henchman.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Han Sing | Jet Li |
| Trish O'Day | Aaliyah |
| Mac | Isaiah Washington |
| Kai | Russell Wong |
| Silk | D M X |
| Isaak O'Day | Delroy Lindo |
| Ch'u Sing | Henry O |
| Colin | D B Woodside |
| Maurice | Anthony Anderson |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Andrzej Bartkowiak |
