Blue Steel (1990)

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This early Kathryn Bigelow thriller is not as accomplished as her later efforts ("Point Break", made just one year later, was a big leap forward), but you can see the signs of things to come. The film is sometimes dreamy, sometimes nightmarish, and sometimes very bloody. Bigelow creates a vivid New York atmosphere, and Brad Fiedel supplies a hypnotic music score. Ron Silver is very convincing as a psychopathic serial killer, Jamie Lee Curtis' awkwardness as a cop is built into her character. However, the script, co-written by Bigelow and Eric Red, is so unbelievable (from Silver's literally overnight transformation into a killing machine to his apparent imperviousness to bullets to Curtis' superiors stubbornly refusing to believe her until it's too late) that the movie becomes unintentionally (I think) funny at times. Still worth seeing for Bigelow's stylish direction. **1/2 out of 4.

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..............

..and that's to be polite ! The thing is this kind of movies is so easy. You just pick out a lunatic, a good hero, and a chase. Without any serious shadows, cases to show, or even logical reasons! I hated many things. We didn't get to know that psycho. He has no motive to move him, or clear complex he suffers from. His murders are random with nothing understandable about them (he kills for killing, so why he thinks himself the soul mate of the cop who kills criminals ?!!!). And even the lead herself; why to shoot a small time criminal this brutal? Yes, there is a bad relationship with her dad, but that was the reason ?? The scene of (Ron Silver) speaking to a voice we don't hear was, with its lame directing, laughable. The repeating of showing stopped cars as moving ones was too. But nothing can surpass the blue lighting in the police station; aside from being extremely artistic (as if the sun is present in 2 opposite places in the same time, radiating blue beams as well ??!), that was also provocatively enigmatic as if these people save the electricity and work nearly in the dark !The story got blank rounds all over it. The third act is a major one itself. Why that evil guy became like a junkie terminator; with no bullet can affect him ! Originally how he knew that the lead ran away from the hospital (despite her disguise, and the fact that he's a fugitive !!). And so on with the whys and the hows. Sure still the movie's best point is its director (Kathryn Bigelow). Although this is faraway from being one of her best, and her slate isn't totally clean since she co-wrote it, but she led – for most of the time – a tense pace and steamy image. The soundtrack was better than the movie in many places, giving it some of the 1980s most preferable electronic horror. Casting (Jamie Lee Curtis) and (Ron Silver) was so right, but with the wrong script. They both seemed outwardly believable however in unbelievable events.I was board to death during the last 20 minutes (when Silver turns into a loose monster in the streets, and Curtis is his slayer!), not caring who will live and who will die. That sequence portrays the worst of any writing, directing this movie has. Simply this is nothing but a blank thriller, with a bit of violence and sex to entertain. At times it looked like a remake of Dirty Harry (1971). But it ended up as another slasher movie, where the evil man kills, kills, kills, then gets killed, and that's it !(Blue Steel) is as deep as its title, and as mindless as its mad character. It is something only to watch, but not to think about or love watching it. I'm trying till now to believe that this was produced by (Oliver Stone) himself !

There have always been so few female directors working in mainstream cinema, I always try to see as many of their films as I can. In this case it was a film by Kathryn Bigelow, 1989's cop thriller 'Blue Steel.'Jamie Lee Curtis plays a rookie cop who guns down a robber in a grocery store hold-up. Unbeknownst to her, a stockbroker, played by Ron Silver, picks up the crooks gun. Soon he's obsessed with Curtis and out in the streets at night murdering random people. He tracks her down, stalks her, even takes her to dinner. When Curtis finds out that he's the madman responsible for the murders plaguing the city, they both enter into a deadly game of cat and mouse.I've always found Kathryn Bigelow interesting. Unlike acclaimed female directors like Jane Campion and Mira Nair, Bigelow's films are aggressive, even masculine. Some of her credits include 'Near Dark,' 'Point Break,' 'Strange Days,' and this years critical hit 'The Hurt Locker.' Watching any of these films you'd have no idea they had a female behind the camera. And that's why I like her so much. She breaks the mold of what kind of pictures female directors 'should' make.So I was looking forward to sitting down and enjoying 'Blue Steel.' Sadly, I really didn't. The problem isn't the acting or directing, it's the script. The first half of the film is tight and suspenseful, but the second half is full of clichés and plot holes. The cinematography however, is pretty good, and sort of distracts you from the dull proceedings. It's reminiscent of a Ridley Scott film from the 80's.All in all, 'Blue Steel' isn't terrible, it's just not very believable or exciting. There was a great movie that could have been made here, but because of the lousy script, we got a mediocre one.