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Blue Steel (1990)

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Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding the clerk at gunpoint. Megan gets close enough to shoot the gunman, and calls out for him to drop his weapon. He spins the gun toward her, and she unloads her service revolver into his chest. His gun

Dec 3, 2002

MGM Home Entertainment

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Underrated Kathryn Bigelow gem.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

The thriller inadvertently becomes an exercise in erotic violence: Director Bigelow turns the heroine's uniform and gun into fetishism, making her film a field day for Freudian psychologists.

May 5, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment (1)

A captivating and thrilling whodunnit....Silver's tops

April 25, 2005 Comment
Moviehole

A routine crime thriller that surprisingly adds some off-kilter punch to its run-of-the-mill psychological edginess.

May 22, 2003 Comment
TheWorldJournal.com

The film gets very silly at times, particularly during the unnaturally attenuated final showdown between Megan and Eugene, but it's still enjoyable.

January 12, 2003 Full Review Source: All Movie Guide | Comment (1)
All Movie Guide

Good premise, weak execution. Silver is rather hammy as the gun nut.

November 14, 2002 Comment
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Bigelow brings some steely style to an otherwise pedestrian cop thriller. Clever switcheroo on the casting, though.

July 26, 2002 Comment
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Jamie Lee Curtis does not look very good in a police uniform. There are some good suspense scenes in this film however.

July 7, 2007
YosemiteSamFan

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Jamie Lee Curtis (Carpenter films aside): poor. Ron Silver: poor. Kathryn "Point Break" Bigelow: oh, so very poor. Not a recipe for success.

June 10, 2007
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