Blue Steel 9/08/23
by Torgo
What makes this movie stand out from others like it is in one thing it does that similar ones don't: let Megan do more showing than telling to answer why she became a cop.
Blue Steel 9/12/21
by Rockatansky
On that front, the movie seems astute about the aesthetic, even erotic qualities of a police uniform, heightening the implied sensuality of suiting up sequences in action movies when juxtaposing such scenes here with the villain's fetishization of the heroine.
Blue Steel 7/23/15
by Iroquois
Sandwiched between a pair of cult classics, 1987's vampire neo-Western Near Dark and 1991's extreme-sports caper flick Point Break, it is ultimately a rather disappointing cop movie that was co-written by Bigelow and her Near Dark collaborator Eric Red.
