Though this had plausibility issues one could drive a truck through, I enjoyed this movie despite itself. I really enjoyed Jamie Lee Curtis and Ron Silver's charisma and acting, both when they were falling in love and later when they were at each other's throats. Very good soundtrack by Brad Fiedel--surprisingly, I liked it much more than Tangerine Dream's work in Bigelow's earlier Near Dark. If you can forgive the plot holes and just go along for the ride, it's a surprisingly rewarding film.
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Blue Steel
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!
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Release date
16/03/1990
Votes
468
Popularity
4.6
Jamie Lee Curtis
Officer Megan Turner
Ron Silver
Eugene Hunt
Clancy Brown
Detective Nick Mann
Elizabeth Peña
Tracy Perez
Louise Fletcher
Shirley Turner
Philip Bosco
Frank Turner
Kevin Dunn
Asst. Chief Stanley Hoyt
Richard Jenkins
Attorney Mel Dawson
Markus Flanagan
Husband
Mary Mara
Wife
Skipp Lynch
Instructor
Mike Hodge
Police Commissioner
Mike Starr
Superintendent
Chris Walker
Officer Jeff Travers
Tom Sizemore
Wool Cap
David Ilku
Counterman
Andrew Hubatsek
Cashier
Joe Jamrog
Doorman
Matt Craven
Howard
Reginald Wells
TV Announcer #1
Heidi Kempf
TV Announcer #2
Toni Darling
Prostitute
William Marshall
Hood
James Shannon
Maitre D'Hotel
Thomas Dorff
Businessman - Victim
William Wise
Internal Affairs Man
Lauren Tom
Female Reporter
Faith Geer
Lady Bum
Doug Barron
Reporter #1
Carol Schneider
Reporter #2
L. Peter Callender
Reporter #3
Becky Ann Baker
Nurse #1
Frank Girardeau
Uniform Cop
Larry Silvestri
Precinct Cop
John Capodice
Trial Commissioner
Sam Coppola
PBA Representative
Bellina Logan
Rookie #1
Ralph Nieves
Homicide Detective
Al Cerullo
Helicopter Pilot
Harley Flanagan
Punk #1
James Drescher
Punk #2
George Gerard
Police Cadet (uncredited)
Jan Saint
Old Man Playing Chess (uncredited)
Reg Wells
News Anchor (uncredited)
Michael Philip Del Rio
John Perez
Original Soundtrack
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Normally a werewolf movie will have more werewolves in it than this. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
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Kathryn Bigelow did this, which stands to reason has to be pretty good. She has yet to make a movie that is unwatchable, and in the 1990s she hit her stride. And you can tell it was Bigelow, because Silver actually had a decent performance and Curtis shows her dramatic credentials and proves she is more than just a scream queen... but more importantly Ron Silver does a good job and I've only seen him deliver meh at best. But in the end, you still have to take it for what it is, a tense thriller like so many others you have seen before, but a tense thriller with some real class behind it …
Read full review →"Blue Steel" is a fascinating film throughout and Kathryn Bigelow is a director of tremendous skill and she delivers a film which effortlessly keeps you on edge and it often misleads you on every occasion possible by continually unfolding in all sorts of wholly unexpected and always interesting ways - it also manages to engineer one completely startling moment with the murder of Megan's best friend Tracy. It is no wonder the brilliant Kathryn Bigelow rapidly continued to rise through the admittedly small ranks of talented female directors to establish a high profile career with interesting fil…
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