Blue Steel [DVD]

Blast from the past action movie played brilliantly by Ron silver as the psychopath who falls for police officer Curtis very explosive movie recommended

Good.

Blue Steel (1990) Blu-ray. Import version on the Lionsgate / Studio Cannel label.German Import Blu-ray on region B.102 mins (1 hour 42 mins 10 seconds)Europe age rating 16Widescreen 1.78:1 (it fills the screen without any black bars)Audio in English or Deutsch PCM stereo.Subtitles are available in Deutsch only.Bonus content:Trailers for Terminator 2 & Blood Simple in German (these two are only watchable as the disc is first loading).Original Blue Steel Trailer in English.Plus German trailers for:The commuterThe GraduateGold.It comes in a slim Blu-ray case, thinner than chunky UK ones and has a reversible sleeve/inlay - one side removes the large age rating box, all info is in German on both sides bar the title. Menus are easy to navigate.Looks good on Blu-ray, good picture, natural colours, it’s not grainy and the audio is clear. It’s not been painstakingly restored so there are the odd white flecks on screen but it looks like a top quality transfer from an original print.Love this movie which can hard to track down to buy, I’ve not even seen it on TV since the 90’s.Jamie Lee Curtis proves she is more than a horror ‘Scream Queen’ in this very serious and dramatic role. It’s a slow burn thriller about a cop in training after a killer. Takes a while to get going then really builds up the suspense.

is a 1990 American action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, and Clancy Brown.The film was initially set to be released by Vestron Pictures and its offshoot label Lightning Pictures, but it was ultimately released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which acquired the film due to Vestron's financial problems and eventual bankruptcy.Lawrence Kasanoff, Vestron's head of production at the time, greenlit and produced the movie.PlotA rookie in the police force must engage in a cat-and-mouse game with a pistol-wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.My ThoughtsA good all-round thriller from Kathryn Bigelow, the future director of Point Break and Zero Dark Thirty and the scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis, together and gives her another string to her bow and a forgotten classic before moving into the top Hollywood A-list.

Writing this because this film in no way deserves three stars...A rookie police officer becomes a deranged killers fantasy after a violent store robbery shooting.Blue Steel is a taut, fast paced psychological thriller.This is a film that rewards looking at it not just as a straight thriller but as a rough exploration of certain themes and fetishes.Blue Steel revolves around fetish symbolism especially regarding firearms and the image of the police (especially women officers)and power and control/dominance...At times some of the films explorations seem too brief and even stunted but this is always the problem with an hour and a half running time.Ron Silver is excellent and so is Jamie Lee Curtis (admittedly I'm not a fan but she is very good in this)... Clancy Brown's character is never given enough play which is one of the films shortfalls.There are several well shot set pieces and the shootout at the end is super.Watch it once as a thriller then watch it again to pick up on the subtler stuff.

This is a truly dreadful film with a totally lazy and unconvincing script. Example: Jamie Lee Curtis comes across the crazed baddie (not clear how) at the scene of a crime rigged by him. His brief turns up at the crime (even less clear how this occurred), a deeply unlikeable bully, as do the rest of the police (not bright ones I'm afraid). The brief argues that, despite reasonable chunks of circumstantial evidence that his client should not be detained at the crime scene or even interviewed. He adds that JLC's police career should be terminated on the grounds that she had not actually seen his face and must therefore be persecuting him for some unexplained reason. Fair dos is the response of the police as JLC slinks away to rue their latest bad break and the rest of the NYPD slink away to make derisive remarks about her and her poor policing skills. The appallingly badly drawn psychopath character spends a considerable part of the film shooting people at close range but at no stage does anyone in the NYPD remember the concept of forensics, testing for gunshot residue etc. Pity because if they had the film would have lasted about ten minutes which would have been a very good thing. There is a domestic abuse filler uncomfortably wedged into the middle of the film that is also laughably badly written and just makes you want the film in general and her intensely irritating mother in particular to stop, pleeeease just stop. Very, very, very bad, avoid at all costs.

blue steel is a forgotten gem a psycho thriller that is very violent and full of tension jamie lee is very good as trigger happy rookie cop who on her 1st night on the job blows away a supermarket robber (TOM SIZMORE )...but that the least of her troubles no gun is found at the scene and a day later a man is shot to death and her name is etiched into the caseing of the bullet? this leads to a great cat and mouse chase between an chilling psycho played by the brillant ron silver who is very cold and chilling in a role he plays with great aplomb.this movie looks great and is full of tough grity action and very good acting from curtis and ron silver.(good film)