Fresh
Blue 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.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Blue Steel
For a rookie cop, there's one thing more dangerous than uncovering a killer's fantasy...becoming it.
1990 · 1h 42m · R
Thriller
Directed by
Kathryn Bigelow
Overview
Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. That same someone carves Turner's name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders. Turner teams up with detective Nick Mann to clear her name and catch the killer. But she is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who's always one step ahead… and much closer than she thinks!
Director and cast
- Kathryn Bigelow Director
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Megan Turner
- Ron Silver as Eugene Hunt
- Clancy Brown as Nick Mann
- Elizabeth Peña as Tracy Perez
- Louise Fletcher as Shirley Turner
- Tom Sizemore as Wool Cap
- Philip Bosco as Frank Turner
- Lauren Tom as Female Reporter
- Kevin Dunn as Asst. Chief Stanley Hoyt
- Richard Jenkins as Attorney Mel Dawson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Fresh
Jamie Lee Curtis makes Megan so appealing and real that the film holds together even when it has no reason to.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
A mean and unsavory celebration of misplaced misogyny milked for dollars, a mindless soup of urban neurosis and sexual loathing.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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