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
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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
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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
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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
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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.