Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Best movie ever!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

"Blue Steel" features a solid pe4rformance from Jamie Lee Curtis and the stylish direction you've come to expect from Kathryn Bigelow, but its story about a crazy serial killer preying on a rookie officer is predicated on some sketchy writing. So, Curtis is the tough lady cop who foils a grocery robbery, and Ron Silver the bystander who witnesses the shooting and (by the way) pockets the robber's gun. None of the witnesses come to Curtis' support that she fired in self-defense? From the outset, she's on the defensive from everybody, including her own brothers in blue. And from then on, it's one contrivance after another that lets Silver slip through the cracks. After awhile, you just start pulling your hair.This is forgettable stalker material, but Bigelow at least keeps things moving.5/10

BLUE STEEL is a solid entry in the short-lived psycho-thriller genre that sees Jamie Lee Curtis playing a rookie NYPD police officer who finds herself the subject of attention for a deranged stalker after a shoot-out in a supermarket. The film's direction is by none other than Kathryn Bigelow (NEAR DARK) who creates a moody and atmospheric entry into the genre with lots of blue lighting and shadows.The script, written by Bigelow and Eric Red as a virtual reprise of THE HITCHER, is unfortunately what lets this film down as it's absolutely littered with plot holes, flaws, and unbelievable situations. Every effort is made to isolate Lee Curtis's character but the situations in which she finds herself are ludicrous in the extreme, so much so that at times the story becomes a farce.A good job, then, that BLUE STEEL does have other stuff going for it. Brad Fiedel's music is typically evocative and the acting is above average for the genre. Lee Curtis is solid which is no surprise given the subject matter and her experience with the genre, but the stand-out is inevitably Ron Silver (TIMECOP) as the villain of the piece. Silver has always been one of the most menacing actors in the business and he makes an exemplary psychopath. It's also great to see the hulking Clancy Brown playing a good guy for a change, with plenty of screen time. BLUE STEEL is no classic but for fans of the genre or indeed the director it's well worth a look.

..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 !

This is an incredible movie. It is the story of a psycho-killer as seen by the psycho-killer. But that isn't explained to you. You're sitting there thinking this is simply another cop flick but then slowly, as nothing makes sense, no logic is followed, not one character acts as a normal person would act--not once, after literally hundreds, if not thousands, of these digressions from real life on earth, you eventually realize that nothing is supposed to make sense. And when I say nothing, I mean not one thing. Not one action. Not one character acts realistically not once. Do you know of that movie that scientists had monkeys in a zoo write once as an experiment? Well that script made more sense than this one. Wow. Not even the extras in Blue Steel acted normally, not once. It makes as much sense to call Blue Steel a police thriller as to call The Three Stooges Meet Hercules a serious drama about the exploration of outer space. Have you ever seen a porno film? Surely the stupidest one in the world must make more sense than Blue Steel. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, and the rest are as entertaining acting as ever but, wow, the houseflies I just swatted, as they were repeatedly bouncing off my windows, were acting more logically than any character in Blue Steel. I'm surprised this movie didn't lead to a new slang term for making no sense, e.g. when you see a spider spin cobwebs in your basement until you squoosh him and throw him in the trash, you should say, "Well, so much for that Blue Steeler."