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Summary: Top Ten Stupid Movie Of The 90s
Review: A "friend" recommended this movie, and so I rented it. The next day I wish I had some cold, sharp steel to run through his scrawny, lousy-reviewing heart. Oh, the headache this movie gave me! And that lousy dialogue will haunt me 'till the day I die. There was a scene in this movie where Jaime Lee is telling her captain how she's going to get the bad guy. I'll paraphrase and embellish to give you an idea what you're in for if you rent this turkey: J.L.: Captain, I'm going to get him! I'm going to shoot him with my gun and bullets! Captain: Okay, Jaime Lee, relax. J.L.: No captain, I'm going to kill him! He's going to-- Captain: All right Jaime Lee, I get the point. J.L.: No captain! I'm going to shoot him dead-- Captain: Shut the @#*!&# up! And believe me, that was one of the high points. However, this movie has influenced my life. For example, when a "friend" called me to ask how a date turned out, I told him it was like Blue Steel. I guess you can figure out how lousy my night was.
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Summary: vacuous story and characters
Review: An NYPD rookie and her partner match wits with a not-so-bright homicidal lunatic (Silver) in this farcical "thriller." Silver's one-dimensional character is so vile and despicable that we become too infuriated to be scared. Despite the substantial time focussed on him, there is little character development, no past, no context, no meaning--nothing to make him an interesting or awesome character. Because we don't expect him to do anything else but kill like a homidical robot from the start, suspense is nil. Not once do any of the characters act out of rationality or common sense. The story itself completely lacks common sense. Too bad Jamie Lee Curtis's best performance to date had to be in such a turkey of film.
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Summary: deceiving
Review: been long time since ive seen this movie i rent it before buying it in dvd and i was desapointed i thought there was more action
Rating: 
Summary: Good Flick
Review: Blue Steel is entertaining. I believe you have to be a Jamie Lee Curtis fan to appreicate this movie. The actress performance
was good, but the story line wasn't as good.
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Summary: possibly Jamie Lee's worst
Review: Every once in a while someone comes up with a movie and makes the terrible assumption that as long as they put a well known actor/actress in it that everything will turn out good. Blue Steel is one of those movies. Jamie Lee Curtis plays a rookie cop who is being held responsible for civilian casualties (or should I say murders) which she did not commit. Sounds like an interesting plot, right? It would be had the script not been so poorly written. The supporting actors give such a bland/typical performance that not even Jamie Lee could have saved the dialogue. Aside from the acting, the film does not give the action packed performance that it promises. Some scenes are quite dull and as you are watching you wonder half way through the movie when the cop (Jamie Lee) is going to finally kill the psychopath whose been after her. So why do I give Blue Steel an extra star? Well, I'll just say that if you are a fan of Jamie Lee Curtis you might want to watch this if it comes on television. Just don't pay over $3 to rent it and certainly don't buy it.
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Summary: Suspenseful JAMIE LEE Thriller
Review: I don't know what movie some of you people reviewed in this section, but it was not BLUE STEEL! Some of you seem to have "missed the boat" altogether and at once on this one. I just caught this on a saturday afternoon TV matinee, and it's one hell of a suspenseful psycho-killer-thriller in which Jamie Lee Curtis very well succeeds and comes across extremely credible and entertaining as an action type heroine stalked by a murderous psychopath. The killer is obsessed with Jamie throughout the film and sets about destroying her professional and personal life...you'll have to watch it, I don't want to give it all away...and this film has its ongoing suspenseful and intriguing twists and turns which will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout its entirety. Never a dull moment! There are elements within this film that remind me of Sigourney Weaver's COPYCAT thriller, which is another entertaining film. Jamie should make more films like this one. I've only seen a few of her movies, not really a fan before, but this one has surely made a Jamie Lee Curtis admirer out of me! I'm adding this dvd to my collection.
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Summary: More than they can chew?
Review: I wanted to like Blue Steel more than I did, but in the end the film is not effective as a psychological cop drama, an action film, or a thriller. It's only use seems to be as an over stylized, heavy-handed exercise in emasculating a female cop for some role reversal in a genre dominated by tough male cops (Dirty Harry and its dozens of imitators). It's sure to excite film theorists looking for a feminist angle, but in the end it comes off as plain silly when it had a lot of potential. Jamie Lee plays Megan, a rookie cop who gets suspended after shooting a robber her first night on the job. (The robber is a cracked out Tom Sizemore). The crime scene gun, which would clear her, disappears into the hands of one of the witnesses. Ron Silver is the Wall Street gold trader who grabs the gun and begins a maniacal killing spree, carving Curtis' name into the bullets and implicating her. In the meantime, he begins seeing her romantically after arranging a chance meeting on the street. This enables him to really play with her mind; as the relationship escalates, the bodies start piling up. Even after he implicates himself to her during a demented revelation of sorts (that gun grabbing business will have film theorists drooling), his status makes him a very unlikely suspect, and his expensive lawyer is able to shield him from the cops. He even shoots Megan's best friend right in front of her, yet he still gets away with it. The man is clearly nuts, yet he's somehow untouchable. There is practically no insight into Silver's character. Like how a successful trader (who readily describes his own job trading gold options as 'misanthropic') is just one stray gun away from becoming the next Son of Sam. Silver is a tremendous actor but he's given little to work with. Having Silver play a trader must be some comment on a male dominated industry (Wall Street, traditionally) and its relationship to other primal male instincts (killing?), only hinted at in some of Silver's wackier moments. It's not exactly subtle, and if you think about it, it's even slightly offensive. The movie is rife with plot holes and jumps in logic that you dismiss until the end, when absurdity really takes over as a deserted Wall Street turns into the Wild West. Our two principles chase each other, exchange gunfire at close range, get shot, run some more, shoot each other again, etc. I kept thinking it was a dream sequence, but it wasn't. Silver turns into Michael Meyers; he just can't seem to die. He's shot, he's down, he's back up, he's shot again, etc. Don't worry, that wasn't a plot spoiler; you can see it coming from the opening titles. Blue Steel could have been much better. Perhaps it was too early in director Kathryn Bigelow's career. The intense, confident visual style of Near Dark is here, but the film is mainly concerned with vindicating its androgynous star's character through (typically male) movie violence. The significance is that it's a female director. The film would probably make even less of splash were it released today. There are worse ways to kill time. The DVD is not bad, it looks and sounds good enough. So nice of the studio to include nothing in the way of extras; everyone loves having to buy the same product yet again. Recommended for Bigelow and Curtis fans.
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Summary: More than they can chew?
Review: I wanted to like Blue Steel more than I did, but in the end the film is not effective as a psychological cop drama, an action film, or a thriller. It's only use seems to be as an over stylized, heavy-handed exercise in emasculating a female cop for some role reversal in a genre dominated by tough male cops (Dirty Harry and its dozens of imitators). It's sure to excite film theorists looking for a feminist angle, but in the end it comes off as plain silly when it had a lot of potential. Jamie Lee plays Megan, a rookie cop who gets suspended after shooting a robber her first night on the job. (The robber is a cracked out Tom Sizemore). The crime scene gun, which would clear her, disappears into the hands of one of the witnesses. Ron Silver is the Wall Street gold trader who grabs the gun and begins a maniacal killing spree, carving Curtis' name into the bullets and implicating her. In the meantime, he begins seeing her romantically after arranging a chance meeting on the street. This enables him to really play with her mind; as the relationship escalates, the bodies start piling up. Even after he implicates himself to her during a demented revelation of sorts (that gun grabbing business will have film theorists drooling), his status makes him a very unlikely suspect, and his expensive lawyer is able to shield him from the cops. He even shoots Megan's best friend right in front of her, yet he still gets away with it. The man is clearly nuts, yet he's somehow untouchable. There is practically no insight into Silver's character. Like how a successful trader (who readily describes his own job trading gold options as 'misanthropic') is just one stray gun away from becoming the next Son of Sam. Silver is a tremendous actor but he's given little to work with. Having Silver play a trader must be some comment on a male dominated industry (Wall Street, traditionally) and its relationship to other primal male instincts (killing?), only hinted at in some of Silver's wackier moments. It's not exactly subtle, and if you think about it, it's even slightly offensive. The movie is rife with plot holes and jumps in logic that you dismiss until the end, when absurdity really takes over as a deserted Wall Street turns into the Wild West. Our two principles chase each other, exchange gunfire at close range, get shot, run some more, shoot each other again, etc. I kept thinking it was a dream sequence, but it wasn't. Silver turns into Michael Meyers; he just can't seem to die. He's shot, he's down, he's back up, he's shot again, etc. Don't worry, that wasn't a plot spoiler; you can see it coming from the opening titles. Blue Steel could have been much better. Perhaps it was too early in director Kathryn Bigelow's career. The intense, confident visual style of Near Dark is here, but the film is mainly concerned with vindicating its androgynous star's character through (typically male) movie violence. The significance is that it's a female director. The film would probably make even less of splash were it released today. There are worse ways to kill time. The DVD is not bad, it looks and sounds good enough. So nice of the studio to include nothing in the way of extras; everyone loves having to buy the same product yet again. Recommended for Bigelow and Curtis fans.
Rating:
Summary: Cop out of Blue Steel unless you like Jamie Lee Curtis.
Review: Jamie Lee Curtis does a fantastic job playing a rookie cop, Megan, who kills a thief at a supermarket robbery during her first day on the job. Ron Silver has the best performance as the convincing, although almost over-the-top, power hungry stock broker, Eugene, who picks up a gun during the market robbery that Megan prevented. As any good psychopath would he becomes infatuated with Megan and goes around killing people with her name on the bullet casings. Too make matters worse he courts Megan and she falls for him. The rest of the film finds Megan working with her fellow men in blue to figure out who the mysterious killer could be during the day while getting her swerve on with Eugene during the evenings. The cinematography is good including some appropriate scenes shot in blue light. However, the characterization is fairly poor, especially for Eugene where very little of his background is revealed and the plot is quite predictable.
Rating:
Summary: Cop out of Blue Steel unless you like Jamie Lee Curtis.
Review: Jamie Lee Curtis does a fantastic job playing a rookie cop, Megan, who kills a thief at a supermarket robbery during her first day on the job. Ron Silver has the best performance as the convincing, although almost over-the-top, power hungry stock broker, Eugene, who picks up a gun during the market robbery that Megan prevented. As any good psychopath would he becomes infatuated with Megan and goes around killing people with her name on the bullet casings. Too make matters worse he courts Megan and she falls for him. The rest of the film finds Megan working with her fellow men in blue to figure out who the mysterious killer could be during the day while getting her swerve on with Eugene during the evenings. The cinematography is good including some appropriate scenes shot in blue light. However, the characterization is fairly poor, especially for Eugene where very little of his background is revealed and the plot is quite predictable.
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