Memorable, crazy movie

Fantastic!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

(Credit IMDb) A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her. Critics were not kind to this movie, and it seems IMDb users feel the same way with the 5.5 rating. I'm not like other people, and I found this movie to be pretty good. It's suspenseful, action packed, with good buildup as well. It's very gritty in its approach with some terrific atmosphere. I especially enjoyed the cat and mouse game from Ron Silver with the vulnerable Jamie Lee Curtis. It was pretty intense stuff. Like a lot of movies. I do get annoyed with the "framed" approach, but it works well here, despite feeling like a little bit of Fatal Attraction at times. Jamie Lee Curtis is terrific as the rookie cop. Not only does she show the proper vulnerability, but her sexiness is low-key. Ron Silver plays a fantastic psychopath, whilst Clancy Brown actually plays a good guy for once. And you know what? He did very well. His chemistry with Curtis was very solid. The shootout in the finale is one of the best I've ever seen. It's highly suspenseful. My only big complaint is the annoying subplot with Jamie Lee Curtis's parents (Louise Fletcher & Phillip Bosco) I found the domestic abuse thing to be a bit annoyingFinal Thoughts: This is criminally underrated. Yes. It's flawed, but it's the enjoyment that counts for me. It's well worth a watch7.8/10

There's a scene early in Blue Steel where newly sworn-in cop Jamie Lee Curtis passes a couple of girls from the neighborhood. The two women do a spinning double take over the sight of a female police officer. Curtis smiles proudly and swaggers on past them. How you react to this scene pretty much will decide whether or not you are capable of enjoying this movie. The scene, like the film, begs to be ridiculed. Blue Steel is full of clichés and characters who act like "types" instead of real people. The dialogue is often cringeworthy and trite. The plot makes little sense. I'm pretty sure the screenwriters started with about fifty pages of F words and tried to write a script around that. However, despite all this, I find myself enjoying this movie.Curtis is a very likable lead, if not wholly believable. She's certainly easy on the eyes. The supporting cast does great considering the material. Ron Silver, an actor I've never been particularly fond of, gives the performance of his career. He must have been on a scenery-chewing diet because he overacts like it's going out of style in this movie. The direction is slick and the movie has a polish to it that gives it a different look than most cop films up to that point. Overall it's an enjoyable and sometimes sexy thriller, with some unintentionally hilarious moments throughout.As for that scene I mentioned at the start of this review: my own reaction was to roll my eyes and then smile. I fully recognize the corniness of the scene. But sometimes I like corn.

"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.

worst supposed bad guy ever.............he's like a smiling teddy bear............not even the least hint of scariness.........even when he's supposedly doing gory stuff he acts like he's selling socks at the shoe store.................and jamie lee.......can not play sexy period..........even though she's decent looking and built she always comes off like my aunt or a pta soccer mom........who uhhh sells yogurt................her sex scenes are like watching your mom...........this is something i hope to never see again .............ever.............and please only use ron silver as a boring attorney,real estate salesman or doctor...........you know boring people with no emotion.............and jamie lee...........well...........she sells yogurt..........as she should..............man what a stinker..............