Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

gridoon2018 This early Kathryn Bigelow thriller is not as accomplished as her later efforts ("Point Break", made just one year later, was a big leap forward), but you can see the signs of things to come. The film is sometimes dreamy, sometimes nightmarish, and sometimes very bloody. Bigelow creates a vivid New York atmosphere, and Brad Fiedel supplies a hypnotic music score. Ron Silver is very convincing as a psychopathic serial killer, Jamie Lee Curtis' awkwardness as a cop is built into her character. However, the script, co-written by Bigelow and Eric Red, is so unbelievable (from Silver's literally overnight transformation into a killing machine to his apparent imperviousness to bullets to Curtis' superiors stubbornly refusing to believe her until it's too late) that the movie becomes unintentionally (I think) funny at times. Still worth seeing for Bigelow's stylish direction. **1/2 out of 4.

seymourblack-1 "Blue Steel" is an action-packed cop drama in which a female police officer is stalked by a violent psychopath who terrorises her and also puts the lives of her family and friends in danger. Her ordeal isn't helped by the lack of support that she receives from her employers or the negative way in which most people respond to her choice of career.Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a New York City cop who, on her first night in the job, shoots and kills a gunman who was holding up a supermarket. When the robber's gun falls to the floor, one of the customers, a commodities broker called Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver), picks it up and leaves. Shortly after the incident, Megan is suspended from duty because the absence of a weapon suggests that she may have panicked and killed an unarmed man.Soon, a number of dead bodies are found on the streets of the city and it becomes evident that they are all victims of a serial killer who's shooting people at random with bullets which have Megan's name inscribed on them. At this point, homicide detective Nick Martin (Clancy Brown) arranges for Megan to be reinstated in the hope that she can help him to catch the killer.The manipulative Eugene Hunt arranges to meet Megan and starts courting her and soon she starts to fall for him. His obsession with her was sparked by her actions on the night of the shooting and it takes a little time before Megan realises that he's seriously disturbed and very dangerous. The danger that Megan finds herself in then continues to escalate steadily as every effort she makes to stop his rampage meets with the same lack of success.Megan Turner's character is the main focus of this film and she's shown to be someone who, as a child, was made to feel angry and powerless because she grew up in a home where her mother was regularly beaten by her father. Her chosen career was attractive to her because it enabled her to exercise power over others and prevent herself from becoming a victim like her mother. Megan's anger, however, is ever present and so when she's asked why she chose to become a police officer, she replies in a semi-humorous way "I like to slam people's heads against walls". This remark is revealing because it's not the type of comment that any well-adjusted person would make and it highlights just how brittle a personality she is.Jamie Lee Curtis captures her character's mixture of toughness, determination and fear perfectly and Ron Silver makes a very strong impression as the unhinged villain who seems completely unstoppable."Blue Steel" is stylishly made and remains engaging throughout despite the fact that it requires a little too much suspension of disbelief at various junctures in order to enjoy it fully.

TheExpatriate700 I had been wanting to see Blue Steel for a long time, since I was a teenager. I had seen a commercial for a showing on the weekend late night movie, but had chosen to watch SNL instead because some actress was hosting.I rented it over ten years later, and was in for a profound disappointment. Although it had a stolen gun premise that has made for such great films as Stray Dog, it suffers from horrible execution.Although it has some decently directed action scenes, Blue Steel suffers from an abysmal, genuinely stupid script. The stupidity sets in from the very beginning, with a major plot hole being the basis of the entire film. The lapses in logic continue throughout the film, cumulating to sink any verisimilitude the film might have had.Compounding the failures of logic in the script is the mediocre acting. Jaime Lee Curtis is unconvincing as a rookie police officer, while Clancy Brown lacks charisma as the homicide detective paired with her. Although the late Ron Silver has some chilling moments as the psychotic murderer, he at times succumbs to overacting. His scenes on the Stock Exchange floor are laugh inducing.The film does benefit from good direction and photography. The viewer definitely gets a preview of the skills that would win Kathryn Bigelow a Best Picture Oscar. What a pity those skills had to be saddled on a piece of junk like this.

MARIO GAUCI 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!