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Cradle 2 the Grave
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Romeo Must Die
Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak
Two warring gang families (one African-American, the other Chinese) maneuver for bragging rights to the Oakland, California docks. Han Sing and Trish O'Day uncover a trail of deceit that leaves most of the warring factions dead... or worse! From TMDB
115 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Oct 28, 2026 · last updated Oct 29, 2026 · How this works
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Romeo Must Die is a 2000 action crime thriller film, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, starring Jet Li, Aaliyah and Isaiah Washington.
- 94 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy
- posts span Aug 1, 2023 to Oct 28, 2026
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60 of 115 · most liked firstIf you need a perfect ice core sample of early 2000s pop culture, you'd be hard pressed to do better than the video for "Try Again" by Aaliyah, featuring Timbaland and JET LI???! and and actual full on step routine, from the soundtrack for the movie 'Romeo Must Die.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lu9...
neutral · AI labelView post →I am willing to negotiate if a Romeo Must Die remake with Zendaya is on the table. I will also allow this if the Wachowskis direct one Marvel movie where I am given final casting approval.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Aaliyah would outdo Beyoncé if she was still alive is always gonna fall flat because they both existed in their realms of entertainment at the same time and Aaliyah was also in her own lane as she was venturing off into the film industry too. (Romeo Must Die, Queen of the Damned, The Matrix)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm not reviewing it... But ROMEO MUST DIE is so much a better use of your time youtu.be/w500paj_MPU?...
positive · AI labelView post →5 Favorite Things: Band: 5SOS Novel: Feed Podcast: [None] Movie: Romeo Must Die Show: Lincoln Heights 5 Oomfs Cursed: @raighnefall.bsky.social @weepinwillo.from.wtf @corvinae.bsky.social @kyonetsu.bsky.social @sel.pooki.es
neutral · AI labelView post →26 years ago, Romeo Must Die, starring Aaliyah and Jet Li, was released in movie theaters!
neutral · AI labelView post →Can anyone name any movie with a romantic plot/subplot between an East Asian man and a Black woman? Because I honestly think that "Romeo Must Die" (2000) might be the only example of this, and it barely counts cause they never even kiss.
neutral · AI labelView post →The year was 2000, the movie was Romeo Must Die, her name is Aaliyah. Gabrielle Union in Cradle 2 the Grave, ALL of the women in Waiting to Exhale, and Nia Long in Friday…..the early 2000’s were so generous to me
neutral · AI labelView post →I used to watch Romeo Must Die a lot but forgot what year it came out—answered: pre-9/11 movie because they meet in the airport terminal with no plane tickets
neutral · AI labelView post →Chiropractor: tell me Mr Wong which vertebrate hurts? Wong: all of them. #KungFuSat #RomeoMustDie
neutral · AI labelView post →This post has me nostalgic af!!!!!!!!! I *loved* Romeo Must Die back in the day! Such a fun, kickass movie! 🥰
positive · AI labelView post →Name a film that is a full sentence. Romeo Must Die
neutral · AI labelView post →@allanb @sharazluke When Jet Li first crossed over into Hollywood, they kept putting him into movies targeted at a hip hop fanbase, like this one and CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE (2003), also with DMX #KungFuSat 💥 #RomeoMustDie
neutral · AI labelView post →@JoeWynne @MatthewTitus88 Delroy Lindo has ALSO done much MUCH better work, like his current role in the fantastic Ryan Coogler film SINNERS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 4️⃣ #KungFuSat 💥#RomeoMustDie
neutral · AI labelView post →@sharazluke @MatthewTitus88 Yep, you Luke, and @paco and @steggy have seen this fun movie in full so far #KungFuSat 💥 #RomeoMustDie I would urge everyone else today to watch the first 30 minutes using Matthew's link or mine for some excellent fight scenes (ROMEO MUST DIE (2000) http://ok.ru/video/3107842624218 https://t.co/HJfUlrhCNg ) like this stairway fight, but way better @kcarr2015 @OldRustBucket @cmdln @kamikat @LK_877 @allanb @JoeWynne
positive · AI labelView post →#8 Aaliyah-Try Again #OutOfOrder Aaliyah was barely old enough to drink when she recorded this Timbaland orchestrated banger. She was also staring in the movie "Romeo Must Die". @paulette7.bsky.social @omega7stone.bsky.social @paulheardartist.bsky.social @dcboy.bsky.social @jmareditor.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been playing Romeo Is A Dead Man, and it is so weird (but good weird). It's kind of like . . . if Metal Gear Solid was a comedy horror game? It is, sadly, *not* a sequel to the Jet Li action romance movie Romeo Must Die.
neutral · AI labelView post →That one had a pretty good cast outside of Seagal himself. Same director also did Romeo Must Die and Cradle 2 the grave with some of the same cast, but no Seagal. Those are slightly better movied since... No Seagal lol
neutral · AI labelView post →My cultural awakening: Jackie Chan films inspired me to become a kung fu instructor. > Shortly after moving, I befriended a girl who had lost her mum. Suffering in our own ways, we found release in watching the 1998 action comedy Rush Hour, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as detectives trying to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Chinese diplomat. My friend had the film on VHS, and we put it on one night when I was sleeping over. This became a regular activity, and we would fling…
neutral · AI labelView post →welcome to today's High-Speed, Cluff Notes version of one of my favorite movies 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ #KungFuSat 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ #RomeoMustDie I AM SO SORRY
positive · AI labelView post →Remember wanting to go watch Romeo Must Die in theaters, so my mom went and took me. But I was a few months too young. And the only movie remotely interesting was... Simon Sez.
neutral · AI labelView post →Late nineties and early 2000s movies were great. The movie Romeo Must Die actually contains the line "Sorry, Romeo, but you gotta die"
neutral · AI labelView post →Didn't remember Jet Li was in a movie with DMX twice. 🙌 📽️ : 'Romeo Must Die' (2000) #nw #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →speaking of adaptations of romeo and juliet might i recommend ROMEO MUST DIE starring jet li, aaliyah, delroy lindo, isaiah washington and dmx. this movie is awesome dont be fooled by the bad reviews
positive · AI labelView post →Sometimes I think it would be fun to go back and watch a bunch of the teen movies we went to in school - Romeo Must Die, A Knight's Tale, Cruel Intentions - and see if they are as bad as I expect they are. But then I think, maybe I should just watch a good movie.
negative · AI labelView post →Slowly, but surely...I'm dwindling down my list of 'Movies To Buy', but every so often I hear someone mention a film (in this case, Romeo Must Die) that I ADD TO the list. ☝️🤣-I'll never get it finished.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching Romeo Must Die. Last year I got to watch it in a special cinema screening. This film has a special place in my heart 🥲💜
positive · AI labelView post →Wow, that finished quickly! Thanks all. Had fun. First time since the cinema 25 years ago that I had watched #RomeoMustDie See you at the next #KungFuSat @SesameSquirrel
positive · AI labelView post →BTW, you are hearing Jet's real voice i Mandarin -- all of his Hong Kong movies were dubbed into Cantonese by someone else Jet Li grew up in Beijing, speaking Mandarin. #KungFuSat 💥#RomeoMustDie
neutral · AI labelView post →I can't believe Sony is advertising a video game called Romeo Is A Deadman that has absolutely no relationship to the classic 2000 martial arts romance movie Romeo Must Die.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve only seen Romeo Must Die. There’s way more than seven who die on that film but I don’t think they have names.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "(for tax purposes)" to a movie title. Romeo Must Die (for tax purposes)
neutral · AI labelView post →In Romeo Must Die, the opening credits are filmed over a car driving east across the Bay Bridge, supposedly to Oakland where the movie is mostly set. Instead, it's actually going west to San Francisco.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nobody told me Romeo Must Die was an Oakland movie! Great cast, too.
neutral · AI labelView post →"I don't know why we don't talk more about this 2001 film from Jet Li..." Because it's a 2001 Jet Li film. That was during his American films spree involving Romeo Must Die to Unleashed. Not a great run.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok, that sounds like a positive review to me. I can't help but constantly confuse the title with that Jet Li movie; Romeo Must Die.
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't mean to exaggerate here but Romeo Must Die may be a perfect movie
positive · AI labelView post →Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel. Romeo Must Die. Aaliyah was my first crush when I was 3
neutral · AI labelView post →I was going to watch a scary movie, but Romeo Must Die is on, so here we are. #areyoufeelingme?
neutral · AI labelView post →Try Again by Aaliyah from Romeo Must Die, a film I've never seen, but you should vote for this song in #TheN0ughtie5 next year, PSA ends.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally, the sequel to Romeo Must Die we've all been waiting for: Mario Must Die
neutral · AI labelView post →Time to put Romeo Must Die in my summer film rotation 👌🏾
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's distraction movie is Romeo Must Die (2000) starring Jet Li and Aaliyah. This is a favorite of mine and I can't believe it came out so long ago. It is a bonus it takes place in the bay area.
positive · AI labelView post →You ready? Queen of the Damned Romeo Must Die Lilo and Stitch The Little Mermaid (live action and animated) Pocahontas The Descent The Proud Family Movie The Craft B.A.P.S X-Men 1, 2 and Last Stand Mean Girls House Party Baby Mama Easy A The Descent 2 Black Panther 1 and 2 Nope One of Them Days
neutral · AI labelView post →The only Steven seagal movie I watched was "Exit Wounds" and it was truly, terrible. When you consider "Romeo Must Die" and "Cradle 2 the Grave" are similar movies by Andrzej Bartkowiak, but are better, partially because they feature Jet Li and not Steven Seagal
neutral · AI labelView post →Boring as hell otherwise, except the end credits riff session where Anthony Anderson and Tom Arnold agree that the movie based on these events should be directed by the man responsible for ROMEO MUST DIE and EXIT WOUNDS.
neutral · AI labelView post →Some friends and I snuck the needed supplies and equipment to make grilled cheese sandwiches in the back of a theater showing Romeo Must Die. A guy got a blowjob from his date like 8 rows in front of us. Couldn’t tell you a single thing about that movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I need to rewatch Kiss of the Dragon, but if I never see Romeo Must Die again it will be too soon. I was working in a cinema that did the test screenings and had to sit through so many showings of slightly different edits, each of which seemed to make the film worse but more marketable.
negative · AI labelView post →2000 AD runners up Bedazzled The Boondock Saints Snatch Dungeons & Dragons Dude, Where's My Car? O Brother, Where Art Thou? Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker Scary Movie The Whole Nine Yards Romeo Must Die
neutral · AI labelView post →So, I'm finally getting into the Red Letter Media guys. I'm now watching Blazin' because of them. I love that this movie claimed to have been the first Urban Romeo and Juliet adaptation with Hong Kong style action a year after Romeo Must Die came out.
neutral · AI labelView post →New Schlockmasters out! We're doing Romeo Must Die. Aaliyah's film debut, Jet Li's first hollywood leading role. Super fun martial arts action and some surprising depth.
neutral · AI labelView post →Jet Li being in this music video makes me love this classic track even more. "Romeo Must Die" remains my favorite movie. I watched it so many times growing up. Hip-hop and martial arts with Aaliyah, DMX, Delroy Lindo, and Jet Li = Perfection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTA0...
positive · AI labelView post →My friend Peacock when me and Ronny Boy were trying to score an 8th when were 20 so we could go watch Romeo Must Die stoned out of our fuckin' minds in the theatre. That was the longest and shortest movie I had ever seen.
neutral · AI labelView post →I always think of Delroy Lindo as Aaliyah's dad in Romeo Must Die. The movie is what it is, but he is great in it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tomorrow posting up review of “Romeo Must Die” as the 26th anniversary of this film is coming up.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching the film Romeo Must Die. The film has lots of ingredients, then many of the ingredients seem undercooked, or overcooked or put in the wrong order. Underwhelming with the chosen director!
negative · AI labelView post →Insert a movie into another movie: Romeo Must Die Hard
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t know who, but somebody’s gotta be itching for a sequel to “Romeo Must Die” called “Juliet Must Live” featuring an AI-resurrected Aaliyah. Fetterman, obviously, would be happy with another Steven Seagal movie where he’s only filmed from the head up.
neutral · AI labelView post →114) Romeo Must Die I am genuinely suprised how good and solid and how much of a real movie this is, definitely better than Cradle 2 the Grave, as far as the Jet Li/DMX duology is concerned Also this movie is about a race war, kinda
positive · AI labelView post →Me and my brother loved this game back in the day! We actually beat the whole game (it took A LOT of quarters) at the movie theater before watching Romeo Must Die opening weekend! 💪😎 #videogames #arcade #BeatEmUps #TheSimpsons
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