Blue Steel
For a rookie cop, there's one thing more dangerous than uncovering a killer's fantasy...becoming it.
For a rookie cop, there's one thing more dangerous than uncovering a ...
Thriller
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1990
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Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. That same someone carves Turner's name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders. Turner teams up with detective Nick Mann to clear her name and catch the killer. But she is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who's always one step ahead… and much closer than she thinks!
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Runtime:
102 min
Release date:
16 Mar 1990
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$8,217,997
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Blue Steel turns into yet another movie about Jamie Lee Curtis bravely fighting off a bogeyman. It's Halloween 1990. Still, Bigelow's talent cuts through in flashes.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep 2011
fresh:
Short on plausibility but preserving the psycho-sexual ambiguities throughout, Bigelow's seductively stylish, wildy fetishistic thriller is proof that a woman can enter a traditionally male world and, like Megan, beat men at their own game.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
Jamie Lee Curtis makes Megan so appealing and real that the film holds together even when it has no reason to.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
The plot is a little of "Fatal Attraction," a little of "Jagged Edge" and a little of "Wall Street." It works because it's so audacious in combining elements that don't seem to belong together.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
A mean and unsavory celebration of misplaced misogyny milked for dollars, a mindless soup of urban neurosis and sexual loathing.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000