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Simply A Masterpiece

Best movie ever!

Admirable film.

Top notch gritty police thriller based on a story from James Ellroy and written for the screen by David Ayer. Dark Blue is directed by Ron Sheldon(who normally makes sports movies) did a good job here and his approach to the material works well. Kurt Russell delivers one of his absolute best performances as Eldon Perry. Perry is LAPD detective that comes from a family that practiced law enforcement since the days of frontier towns. There is no question that Eldon is an exceptional detective with good instincts and the tough resolve necessary to be good at his occupation. However it is his methods that cross the line of the law and human decency. He is working on a homicide case with his rookie partner where he imparts his knowledge and puts him through a hazing process that he most likely went through, to show his method of law enforcement. Kurt does a great job in humanizing this corrupted and violent man on a downward spiral, of which his life is starting to rapidly go down the toilet. Dark Blue takes place in early 90's LA around the time of the Rodney King case and the riots that follow. Dark Blue definitely shows the dark side of law enforcement with corruption, blackmail and police brutality. This film is quite action packed , but is very much a character study of Eldon Perry with a astounding performance by Kurt. The very under rated Ving Rhames is also excellent as his adversary, assistant police Chief Arthur Holland who is building a case on Eldon and his partner to bring down his ultra corrupt boss Jack Van Meter. Dark Blue is a great thriller that holds up and is quite under rated in my opinion.

It's awful. We don't really appreciate all the scene and story in this movie. It's really sick and not worth to watch. The story is really fake and full with offensive and look down to the audience's brain. I am not really like it and not worth my time to deal with. Full with bully words, not a good movie. Bad stars and did not played very well, or just say below standard, no wonder the movie is not successful at box office. For budget is $15 million but Box office is $12,150,301 and it has a 58% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 128 reviews, while it has normalized score of 57 out of 100 from reviewer website Metacritic. That's what's they deserved for what they did.

I stayed with this because I liked the idea of using a background of the tension boiling before the King verdict. That was a weird period in L.A. history, because of "Raider Nation," hip-hop, King, and then O.J.Kurt Russell has played this role before. He did it in Backdraft, and various other films. He does it well. He's not really physically big, but he tends to get these alpha-dog roles. Sometimes it's a bit hard to take seriously because he's kind of a pretty boy and again not tall or muscular. But I give him credit. He usually pulls it off well.I loved Scott Speedman in Felicity. But this was not the right vehicle for his youthful, sensitive face, even though he played a gentle character. He doesn't look old enough to be a detective, and he didn't convey proper emotion at the right times or in the right way.The guy who played the police chief was a caricature. He was too hard boiled. I didn't buy it. He was like a comic book character. Almost every character is morally flawed to an extreme. One gal slept with the whole U.S.C. football team, the Assistant Chief had an affair,even the sweet kid detective murders a guy. The Korean store owner who lost his wife is actually a gangster himself. Come on. Are we really that cynical? I thought the scenes of the beginning of the riot were the best part of the movie. I really felt the tension. You can see that Russell is just becoming aware of what is happening. He had predicted it.The last scene ruins the movie. I suppose it could happen in real life, but has it ever? Corrupt cop grandstands a confession at a big awards ceremony, in front of his wife and kid and all the press, and has a crack addict murderer waiting in cuffs to testify. Then the cop offers himself up to be cuffed in front of everyone. Pure Hollywood. It was fun, but if credibility issues bother you, then this ending will too.While the writer did have the corrupt characters make some good sense of the philosophy that getting bad guys off the street at any cost is necessary, ultimately, it was a piece of propaganda partially justifying the riots and slandering the L.A.P.D. Exercise caution while viewing.

"Just say Goodbye."This is the story of an all powerful cop and his world. The script is contrived, but the actors are good.James Ellroy wrote the story and set it during the Watts riots of the '60. He then updated the story as a low budget cop flick, but after seeing the movie he disowned it, so to speak, which is never a good sign. Apparently the script writer, David Ayer, rewrote the entire thing, keeping only some character's names.And it shows. The script is less than believable, things are made to happen unrealistically, and if the characters acted as they were depicted in this movie, they wouldn't have survived a single day. Other than that, the dialog is good, the first half is too long, but the second one is better.The cast is very good. Kurt Russel has a good part, which allows him to prove his skills as an actor. There is emotion, there is power and there is tension. All very well done. The transition between them, however, is poorly done and things just kinda happen all of a sudden. Scott Speedman does a good job as the sidekick. Ving Rhames has a small part, restrained and cryptic. Brendan Gleeson, Michael Michele and Jonathan Banks complete the circle.Dark Blue. Good acting, but the movie as a whole is nothing to write home about. 5/10.