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Best movie of this year hands down!

To me, this movie is perfection.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This is the example what simple can not do. I would rather say that character of Curt Russel in this movie was detective in West L.A. who'd been always trying to make a right decision in the situation. He was corrupted cop and responsible for his partner's death, but... He screwed everything; His boss, who was also dirty, but the man who gave him the carrier and reputation of the bad ass cop ho solved every case, was locked up, because he decided to do a noble thing and become the main snitch for internals. He was also ended in the jail, but in the end I don't understand the point.

This is an odd movie. I've seen it at least one time before, perhaps twice, yet I can't remember any details on this viewing. Kurt Russell is excellent in his role of the hardened veteran LA cop. The dialogue is sharp and to the point and not overly cliché for the genre.* Kurt Russell is among the ranks of actors who are like medieval guilds men, professionals and not too caught up in acting as an elite art form. He plays the gritty anti-hero in this perfectly, walking a tight rope of swaggering tough guy and someone working for the public good, which is more than you can say for his thoroughly corrupt superiors.James Eroy takes us into the now very familiar underbelly of the Los Angeles Police Department, this time on the verge of the acquittal of the officers who beat Rodney King to within an inch of his life. Russell's character, Eldon Perry explains that the reason the police went overboard on King was because they were denied the right to use a choke-hold on suspects. Pretty lame reasoning as the video pretty clearing shows that King wasn't resisting and there were a whole lot of racist cops hammering on him.So why don't I remember much about this movie after watching it at least once before? Compare it to Street Kings. In Dark Blue there are really no iconic action scenes like we have at the opening of Street Kings in which Keanu Reeves takes out the Asian porn gang or whatever they were.*Not being a cliché is hard to pull off as most cop movies sound exactly the same. They should give s workshop for would-be screen writers on how not to sound like that last 50 cop movies made. My guess is that the people writing most of these films do nothing but watch movies and never, ever read books.

We begin with actual footage from the 1991 beating of Rodney King; the Black man was captured while trying to escape from Los Angeles police, then needlessly beaten by agitated officers. Next, we meet White alcoholic cop Kurt Russell (as Eldon Perry) nervously pacing in his boxer shorts. It's April 1992, when the city erupted in violence following verdict acquitting the police. Quickly, the action shifts to five days earlier. After getting off the hook in an unnecessary killing, Mr. Russell and attractive young partner Scott Speedman (as Bobby Keough) investigate the robbery of a small convenience store...The crime left four dead bodies and took an extraordinary amount of time, and Mr. Speedman thinks the story is more complicated. He's correct, but peeling the onion reveals more than anticipated. Events climax as the city explodes in riots. It's exciting and well-directed by Ron Shelton, but the "big picture" attempted by these parallels isn't artfully made. Russell is disturbingly convincing as the racist and corrupt cop, and Mr. Speedman does nicely as his conflicted ward; though they do look like a "Hair Club" ad couple, at times. Our corrupt cops receive good support, most notably from Ving Rhames.****** Dark Blue (12/14/02) Ron Shelton ~ Kurt Russell, Scott Speedman, Ving Rhames, Brendan Gleeson

Let me set the scene of the movie for you. There are two partners(1 old and 1 young) running around town fulfilling the orders of their infamous, puppetmaster boss by any crooked means necessary. The older cop(Russell)--in turn and due to the fact that his boss used to be his dad's partner--is like a son to him. He takes the younger cop under his wing--in the same way that an older brother that reveres his father would. Basically, Russell defends that man's honor to the younger cop; even though, he knows what they are doing is wrong and he often feels guilty about the murders as dead bodies start to mount by their hands. When Russell's partner(who he loved like a brother) gets shot and killed and he finds out that this father figure boss is responsible(not to mention that the bullets were meant for him), he makes plans to sever ties forever. When you add in Russell's wife and son, the young cop's beautiful cop girlfriend and her convoluted past, Ving Rhames' watchdog investigations into the corruption and his equally convoluted past, family problems, and an ending that you will never forget, you have one of the best movies of all time. It's slightly soap operatic and mostly dramatic. There's a lot going on in this one; you won't get bored; that's for sure! Training Day(a cousin as far as movies go) is better throughout(Dark Blue is close), but Dark Blue's ending is better(Training Day is close, but that shooting scene is over the top). The language is a problem, tho!