Romeo Must Die (2000)
Jet Li and Aaliyah, between two crime families.
Keep the two families at war and the two people who cross between them, and make the rest an action film.
You want an action film, and you like that the title is a joke on the play.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: two warring families and a couple drawn together across the line.
Changes: nearly everything else: two gang families, one African-American and one Chinese, and the betrayals between them.
Two warring gang families, one African-American and one Chinese. Jet Li and Aaliyah, with Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong and Delroy Lindo.
Whose story is it?
Han Sing’s and Trish O’Day’s, played by Jet Li and Aaliyah.
How much time does it ask?
A feature, 1 hour 51 minutes. Rated R.
Jet Li, Aaliyah, Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong, Delroy Lindo.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
More ways into Verona: Romeo and Juliet (George Cukor, 1936) · Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968) · William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)