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Very disappointing...

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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

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.

(Credit IMDb) A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her. Critics were not kind to this movie, and it seems IMDb users feel the same way with the 5.5 rating. I'm not like other people, and I found this movie to be pretty good. It's suspenseful, action packed, with good buildup as well. It's very gritty in its approach with some terrific atmosphere. I especially enjoyed the cat and mouse game from Ron Silver with the vulnerable Jamie Lee Curtis. It was pretty intense stuff. Like a lot of movies. I do get annoyed with the "framed" approach, but it works well here, despite feeling like a little bit of Fatal Attraction at times. Jamie Lee Curtis is terrific as the rookie cop. Not only does she show the proper vulnerability, but her sexiness is low-key. Ron Silver plays a fantastic psychopath, whilst Clancy Brown actually plays a good guy for once. And you know what? He did very well. His chemistry with Curtis was very solid. The shootout in the finale is one of the best I've ever seen. It's highly suspenseful. My only big complaint is the annoying subplot with Jamie Lee Curtis's parents (Louise Fletcher & Phillip Bosco) I found the domestic abuse thing to be a bit annoyingFinal Thoughts: This is criminally underrated. Yes. It's flawed, but it's the enjoyment that counts for me. It's well worth a watch7.8/10

Before anyone starts including Kathryn Bigelow among the world's greatest living film-makers, it would be only fair to take a fresh (and, in my case, mostly preliminary) look at her past work; so far, only STRANGE DAYS (1995) has struck me as being worthy of some note (this was followed by her two successive efforts and I also intend to re-acquaint myself with NEAR DARK [1987], which I recall as having let me down somewhat, while her first two films are not readily available). To get to the title at hand, this easily proves her most by-the-numbers affair – which plays rather like the distaff version of DIRTY HARRY (1971) by way of FATAL ATTRACTION (1987)! Jamie Lee Curtis is quite good in the lead, a rookie cop suspended for her impulsiveness and subsequently adulated by a mysterious but clearly deranged serial killer; when she realizes who it is and, typically, it turns out to be someone too close for comfort, the heroine still cannot produce any physical evidence to nail him…so, in order to exact justice, she has to take the law into her own hands. Apart from the fact that Curtis and Ron Silver (a truly obnoxious baddie) have no chemistry, which kills the tragic potential of their relationship (though her subsequent liaison, inserted almost as an afterthought, with colleague Clancy Brown – unrecognizable from the imposing villain of HIGHLANDER [1986] – works rather better in this regard), the script includes a totally irrelevant subplot in which she has to contend with an awkward familial situation that sees her mother (Louise Fletcher) suffer repeatedly at the hands of a violence-prone husband she, i.e. Curtis, despises! Inevitably, the elaborate crowd-pleaser of an ending assumes the form of a catharsis for the heroine…but, when the level of plausibility within the entire film is about the same as that of a Tex Avery cartoon, one should not be too surprised if it fails to resonate!