This is a much-heralded, proto-feminist cop thriller with a lot of cold blood killings. Janet Lee Curtis vehicle playing a rookie cop who decides to deal out justice in her own hands against a maniacal killer. On her first day on the job, NYPD officer Megan Turner (Janet Lee Curtis), the lone officer on the scene, shoots and kills the perpetrator of a supermarket hold-up. Since no gun was found on the perpetrator's person or at the scene and none of the witnesses could corroborate Megan's story definitively that the perpetrator was indeed wielding a gun, she is suspended from active duty by her superiors (Clancy Brown, Kevin Dunn). But in the crime scene a mysterious witness (Ron Silver) was really. Then Megan is determined to bring in psychotic serial killer , even if he has to break some rules. A psychological thriller as cold as... Blue Steel!. For a rookie cop, there's one thing more dangerous than uncovering a killer's fantasy. Becoming it.
This new outing in Police genre packs suspense, thrills, chills, noisy action-packed, gun-play, plot twists and lots of violence, including bloody and slow-moving scenes in Sam Peckinpah style. A Point Blank Thriller about a tough cop falls into the hands of a Wall Street psycho who begins a killing spree and she eventually takes the law into her own hands. As the two-fisted rookie in the police force must engage in a cat-and-mouse game with a pistol-wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her. Action film made silly with over-anxious sub-text, as well as patriarch-directed rage and finally, happens an exciting, edge-of-your-seat climax. This character of a cop fighting to find a serial killer in the city would seem tailor-made for Janet Lee's tough-tender personality. Unfortunately, the role is helplessly adrift in the embarrassing pschothriller that needs al least four equally repetitive climaxes before it can stagger to a conclusion. Regularly scripted, packed with giggle-prone dialogue and events that go on too long and just hold up the story, the film's stuck from the beginning with the audience knowing who the series murderer is. Along with main star Janet Lee Curtis appears Ron Silver giving overacting as the suspicious Wall Street broker and as secondary casting showing up: Clancy Brown and Kevin Dunn as superior officers who are constantly arguing with Megan, adding other familiar faces, such as: Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher, Philip Bosco, Richard Jenkins, Matt Craven, Markus Flanagan, Mike Hodge, Mike Starr. It contains colorful and atmospheric cinematography by Amir Mokri. Strange and suspenseful musical score is composed by means of synthesizer by Brad Fiedel (Terminator).
The film was mediocrely directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point break, K19 the widowmaker, Strange Days, The hurt locker, Blue Steel, Zero Dark Thirty) providing an uneven but assured direction which at times keeps you on the edge of your seat. Bigelow frequently casts Tom Sizemore who at the start turns up as a robbering victim. Often uses first person perspectives particularly in Blue Steel (1990), Wire trip scenes in Strange Days (1995) and the chase scenes in Point Break (1991) and The hurt locker (2008). In 2010, she became the first woman in Oscar history to win the Best Director award at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, her Best Director Oscar statuette for The Hurt Locker (2008). Bigelow frequently uses slow motion, particularly in action scenes. Her favorite films are Wild Bunch (1969) (as she proved in the slow-moving scenes from Blue Steel) , Terminator (1984), as well as the collective works of Alfred Hitchcock. Rating Blue Steel(1990) : 5.5/10. The pic will appeal to Janet Lee Curtis fans.
This new outing in Police genre packs suspense, thrills, chills, noisy action-packed, gun-play, plot twists and lots of violence, including bloody and slow-moving scenes in Sam Peckinpah style. A Point Blank Thriller about a tough cop falls into the hands of a Wall Street psycho who begins a killing spree and she eventually takes the law into her own hands. As the two-fisted rookie in the police force must engage in a cat-and-mouse game with a pistol-wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her. Action film made silly with over-anxious sub-text, as well as patriarch-directed rage and finally, happens an exciting, edge-of-your-seat climax. This character of a cop fighting to find a serial killer in the city would seem tailor-made for Janet Lee's tough-tender personality. Unfortunately, the role is helplessly adrift in the embarrassing pschothriller that needs al least four equally repetitive climaxes before it can stagger to a conclusion. Regularly scripted, packed with giggle-prone dialogue and events that go on too long and just hold up the story, the film's stuck from the beginning with the audience knowing who the series murderer is. Along with main star Janet Lee Curtis appears Ron Silver giving overacting as the suspicious Wall Street broker and as secondary casting showing up: Clancy Brown and Kevin Dunn as superior officers who are constantly arguing with Megan, adding other familiar faces, such as: Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher, Philip Bosco, Richard Jenkins, Matt Craven, Markus Flanagan, Mike Hodge, Mike Starr. It contains colorful and atmospheric cinematography by Amir Mokri. Strange and suspenseful musical score is composed by means of synthesizer by Brad Fiedel (Terminator).
The film was mediocrely directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point break, K19 the widowmaker, Strange Days, The hurt locker, Blue Steel, Zero Dark Thirty) providing an uneven but assured direction which at times keeps you on the edge of your seat. Bigelow frequently casts Tom Sizemore who at the start turns up as a robbering victim. Often uses first person perspectives particularly in Blue Steel (1990), Wire trip scenes in Strange Days (1995) and the chase scenes in Point Break (1991) and The hurt locker (2008). In 2010, she became the first woman in Oscar history to win the Best Director award at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, her Best Director Oscar statuette for The Hurt Locker (2008). Bigelow frequently uses slow motion, particularly in action scenes. Her favorite films are Wild Bunch (1969) (as she proved in the slow-moving scenes from Blue Steel) , Terminator (1984), as well as the collective works of Alfred Hitchcock. Rating Blue Steel(1990) : 5.5/10. The pic will appeal to Janet Lee Curtis fans.