Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
Matho
The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
NateWatchesCoolMovies
Kathryn Bigelow directed three tip top genre films back in the late 80's/early 90's. Underrated masterpiece Strange Days, killer good vampire western Near Dark, and blazing, lurid cop thriller Blue Steel. Forget her films these days, they've dulled out the fire she used to project. It's all about her early work, and this one shows her love for outright brutality and noirish tendencies, no matter what the genre. Jamie Lee Curtis gets down and dirty as a rookie police officer who finds herself in deep, disturbing trouble when a lunatic targets her. A single stop at a gas station turns violent when a loose cannon petty thief (live wire Tom Sizemore in his film debut!) causes trouble, forcing her to shot him stone cold dead. The incident seems to be over, except for one thing: bystander Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver) witnesses the shooting in vivid detail, and something deep in his psyche snaps. He sinks away, and prompted by voices only he can hear, begins to commit murders using Curtis's gun left at the crime scene, even carving her name into the bullets he uses. This causes friction in the department, her job, sanity and personal life as the obsessed Hunt stalks and worms his way into her life with monstrous, psychotic determination. Silver is an actor who's made appearances here and there, always of the sinister variety and always excellent. This is his tour de force, an absolutely terrifying delusional schizophrenic who is fixated on Curtis's character with squirming intimacy. She's left to play cat and mouse with him, and being somewhat inexperienced, falls short of being able to deal with such a person. Help briefly comes in the form of Detective Nick Mann (a snarky Clancy Brown), but it's mostly just her and Hunt, locked in a deadly, bullet strewn tirade or near misses, uncomfortable confrontations and pulpy scenarios. Bigelow is a suspense expert and knows how to stage a tense sequence like no other, this being her most successful foray into tension and release, which is saying a lot when you look at her career. There's a nice bunch of supporting players too, including Louise Fletcher, Richard Jenkins, Elizabeth Pena, Philip Bosco, Mike Starr and Kevin Dunn. Tou
Leofwine_draca
BLUE STEEL is a solid entry in the short-lived psycho-thriller genre that sees Jamie Lee Curtis playing a rookie NYPD police officer who finds herself the subject of attention for a deranged stalker after a shoot-out in a supermarket. The film's direction is by none other than Kathryn Bigelow (NEAR DARK) who creates a moody and atmospheric entry into the genre with lots of blue lighting and shadows.The script, written by Bigelow and Eric Red as a virtual reprise of THE HITCHER, is unfortunately what lets this film down as it's absolutely littered with plot holes, flaws, and unbelievable situations. Every effort is made to isolate Lee Curtis's character but the situations in which she finds herself are ludicrous in the extreme, so much so that at times the story becomes a farce.A good job, then, that BLUE STEEL does have other stuff going for it. Brad Fiedel's music is typically evocative and the acting is above average for the genre. Lee Curtis is solid which is no surprise given the subject matter and her experience with the genre, but the stand-out is inevitably Ron Silver (TIMECOP) as the villain of the piece. Silver has always been one of the most menacing actors in the business and he makes an exemplary psychopath. It's also great to see the hulking Clancy Brown playing a good guy for a change, with plenty of screen time. BLUE STEEL is no classic but for fans of the genre or indeed the director it's well worth a look.
elshikh4
..and that's to be polite ! The thing is this kind of movies is so easy. You just pick out a lunatic, a good hero, and a chase. Without any serious shadows, cases to show, or even logical reasons! I hated many things. We didn't get to know that psycho. He has no motive to move him, or clear complex he suffers from. His murders are random with nothing understandable about them (he kills for killing, so why he thinks himself the soul mate of the cop who kills criminals ?!!!). And even the lead herself; why to shoot a small time criminal this brutal? Yes, there is a bad relationship with her dad, but that was the reason ?? The scene of (Ron Silver) speaking to a voice we don't hear was, with its lame directing, laughable. The repeating of showing stopped cars as moving ones was too. But nothing can surpass the blue lighting in the police station; aside from being extremely artistic (as if the sun is present in 2 opposite places in the same time, radiating blue beams as well ??!), that was also provocatively enigmatic as if these people save the electricity and work nearly in the dark !The story got blank rounds all over it. The third act is a major one itself. Why that evil guy became like a junkie terminator; with no bullet can affect him ! Originally how he knew that the lead ran away from the hospital (despite her disguise, and the fact that he's a fugitive !!). And so on with the whys and the hows. Sure still the movie's best point is its director (Kathryn Bigelow). Although this is faraway from being one of her best, and her slate isn't totally clean since she co-wrote it, but she led – for most of the time – a tense pace and steamy image. The soundtrack was better than the movie in many places, giving it some of the 1980s most preferable electronic horror. Casting (Jamie Lee Curtis) and (Ron Silver) was so right, but with the wrong script. They both seemed outwardly believable however in unbelievable events.I was board to death during the last 20 minutes (when Silver turns into a loose monster in the streets, and Curtis is his slayer!), not caring who will live and who will die. That sequence portrays the worst of any writing, directing this movie has. Simply this is nothing but a blank thriller, with a bit of violence and sex to entertain. At times it looked like a remake of Dirty Harry (1971). But it ended up as another slasher movie, where the evil man kills, kills, kills, then gets killed, and that's it !(Blue Steel) is as deep as its title, and as mindless as its mad character. It is something only to watch, but not to think about or love watching it. I'm trying till now to believe that this was produced by (Oliver Stone) himself !
LeaBlacks_Balls
There have always been so few female directors working in mainstream cinema, I always try to see as many of their films as I can. In this case it was a film by Kathryn Bigelow, 1989's cop thriller 'Blue Steel.'Jamie Lee Curtis plays a rookie cop who guns down a robber in a grocery store hold-up. Unbeknownst to her, a stockbroker, played by Ron Silver, picks up the crooks gun. Soon he's obsessed with Curtis and out in the streets at night murdering random people. He tracks her down, stalks her, even takes her to dinner. When Curtis finds out that he's the madman responsible for the murders plaguing the city, they both enter into a deadly game of cat and mouse.I've always found Kathryn Bigelow interesting. Unlike acclaimed female directors like Jane Campion and Mira Nair, Bigelow's films are aggressive, even masculine. Some of her credits include 'Near Dark,' 'Point Break,' 'Strange Days,' and this years critical hit 'The Hurt Locker.' Watching any of these films you'd have no idea they had a female behind the camera. And that's why I like her so much. She breaks the mold of what kind of pictures female directors 'should' make.So I was looking forward to sitting down and enjoying 'Blue Steel.' Sadly, I really didn't. The problem isn't the acting or directing, it's the script. The first half of the film is tight and suspenseful, but the second half is full of clichés and plot holes. The cinematography however, is pretty good, and sort of distracts you from the dull proceedings. It's reminiscent of a Ridley Scott film from the 80's.All in all, 'Blue Steel' isn't terrible, it's just not very believable or exciting. There was a great movie that could have been made here, but because of the lousy script, we got a mediocre one.
