Romeo Must Die / Cradle 2 the Grave

First off, I must commend Andrej Bartkowiak (director) and Joel Silver (producer) for giving so much work to Asians and African Americans in these two movies. They not only make up the main stars of the movies, they populate the cast and credits in numbers not seen in any other mainstream movies currently made in the U.S. For this reason alone, these movies provide an "underground" antidote to the White-dominated world depicted in Entertainment Weekly.So, how about the movies? Fun,exciting, sometimes touching -- but not without some problems. IMO Romeo Must Die is the better conceived and executed film. The Romeo and Juliet template may help in laying out the plot, but the updating with Chinese/African Americans is cool and rings clear in today's urban centers -- although Korean/African American would have been even more interesting (but not Korean Jet Li at this time). Best of all, there's enough meat to the script and exchanges of subtle glances to root for the Jet Li/Aaliyah alliance. Unfortunately, they don't even kiss (or even share a Coke).Cradle 2 the Grave is the Bartkowiak/Silver follow-up to this multicultural exploration. Not too bad, this time it's dads talking to each other. For me, C2G is a little harder to get into, even though even more Asian Americans are hired. In spite of beautiful visuals and throbbing music score, the rhythm of the movie's unfolding is too metronomic. The opening scenes -- including the credits -- are wonderfully done. The rest of the movie just does not keep the pressure up (nor build it up).As for this packaging (dual sided disc), it's great. Good price, full features and (as far as I could see) no problems in reading the disc. I always appreciate RMD more each time I see it, hopefully, C2G will fare just as well in the future.

Love the action in both movies. Loved Jet Li and Aalyha together. It was a thrill ride a mile a minute. I can watch it over and over. I loved both movies and all the stars played their roles just right. Did not get lost in the dialogue one time. I would recommend these movies to my friends and family members.

BUYER BEWARE !!! I scheduled a movie night last night since we are all staying in for this health scare . Played the first movie it played fine turned over to veiew second movie and it did not play without skipping. First time ordering from this company.I WILL BE CONTACTING AMAZON AND LET THEM KNOW ABOUT VENDOR. Also movie took longer than it said it would.

Generally, these double-, triple-, or otherwise multi-film deals are cheap, bottom-of-the-barrel compilations that only feed the needs of penny-pinchers and starving airmen. However, Warner Bros' "Romeo Must Die"/"Cradle 2 the Grave" set is a formidable double-team that breaks the subpar standard of these collections and delivers the complete package where both of these films are concerned.Regardless of the contents of the films themselves (you'd have to have been living under a rock not catch Andrej Bartkowiak's 2000 genre-bending Jet Li/Aaliyah vehicle and its indirect sequel co-starring DMX), both include all of the special features found on the individual releases: "Romeo" features 13 making-of featurettes, three music videos, trailers, and DVD-ROM features; "Cradle" includes five featurettes, a DMX music video, the theatrical trailer, and DVD-ROM features. Both films feature English and French language tracks and corresponding subtitles ("Cradle" also has Spanish ones) and, yes, both are featured in 2.4:1 widescreen.I'm a bit disappointed that the middle act of Bartkowiak's quasi-trilogy ( Exit Wounds , starring Steven Seagal) wasn't included on here, but I suppose Warner Bros. figured that Jet Li sells pretty darn well on his own. It's cool to have these two films together on one disc, seeing as their similarities in style make for an excellent comparison opportunity and good companions for a movie night. If it will save you money, there's no reason not to consider this double-feature over buying the two films separate: aside from filling up excess space on your movie shelf, you won't be missing out on anything.

Digital copy was unreadable. I was disappointed so it went in the trash can.

I liked the song try again from the movie romeo must die so I decided to get it. When I recalled that jet li was in cradle 2 the grave as well I figured it would be cheaper to get a double feature than to get to separate dvds.

Great

Good

Top Seller & product thanks A+

enjoyed it

Great movie

I love romeo must die because Aaliyah and Jet-Li stars in the movie, I Love cradle 2 the grave because DMX, Jet-Li are good fighters.