Blue Steel Reviews
Flix Capacitor
There are shades of the tense, muscular action for which the director is now known, but often it all feels overly drawn-out and stylised, as the slow-mo button gets a fair old work out.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Top CriticBlue Steel turns into yet another movie about Jamie Lee Curtis bravely fighting off a bogeyman. It's Halloween 1990. Still, Bigelow's talent cuts through in flashes.
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| Original Score: B-
EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
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| Original Score: C+
Short on plausibility but preserving the psycho-sexual ambiguities throughout, Bigelow's seductively stylish, wildy fetishistic thriller is proof that a woman can enter a traditionally male world and, like Megan, beat men at their own game.
Moviehole
A captivating and thrilling whodunnit....Silver's tops
| Original Score: 3/5
TheWorldJournal.com
A routine crime thriller that surprisingly adds some off-kilter punch to its run-of-the-mill psychological edginess.
| Original Score: 3/5
Jamie Lee Curtis makes Megan so appealing and real that the film holds together even when it has no reason to.
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| Original Score: 3/5
All Movie Guide
The film gets very silly at times, particularly during the unnaturally attenuated final showdown between Megan and Eugene, but it's still enjoyable.
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| Original Score: 6/10
eFilmCritic.com
Bigelow brings some steely style to an otherwise pedestrian cop thriller. Clever switcheroo on the casting, though.
| Original Score: 3.5/5
The plot is a little of "Fatal Attraction," a little of "Jagged Edge" and a little of "Wall Street." It works because it's so audacious in combining elements that don't seem to belong together.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Good premise, weak execution. Silver is rather hammy as the gun nut.
| Original Score: 2/5
What starts out as a moody arthouse flick rapidly becomes an uneven B-movie yukfest (sometimes intentional, sometimes not), with low-budget concessions to the Hollywood cop-versus-killer industry.
