Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Theatrical Release: 03/16/1990(USA)
Release Date: 12/03/2002
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: MGM
Megan Turner (
Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room,
Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (
Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding the clerk at gunpoint.
Megan gets close enough to shoot the gunman, and calls out for him to drop his weapon. He spins the gun toward her, and she unloads her service revolver into his chest. His gun goes flying, and a bystander,
Eugene Hunt (
Ron Silver), surreptitiously picks it up and takes it home.
Megan's superiors, unable to confirm that the man she shot was armed, suspend her.
Eugene, a wealthy commodities broker, becomes obsessed with
Megan. He sets up an "accidental" meeting between them and begins dating her, romancing her with fancy restaurants and helicopter rides over Manhattan. He also carves her name into the bullets he uses to gun down strangers in the street. A tough homicide detective,
Nick Mann (
Clancy Brown of
The Shawshank Redemption), gets
Megan's gun and badge back so she can help him track down the psycho killer. Eventually,
Megan realizes that
Eugene is the killer, but he uses his money and influence to elude the law, and he starts coming after
Megan's friends and family.
Megan's determination to bring
Eugene to justice quickly becomes a very personal obsession. This intense cop
drama,
Blue Steel, was director
Kathryn Bigelow's major studio follow-up to her well-received indie vampire flick,
Near Dark.
Bigelow co-wrote both films with
Eric Red (
The Hitcher).
~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
