Blue Steel

Kathryn Bigelow directs this thriller in a somewhat cold detached manner similar to latter day Kubrick but you stop noticing the directing once you notice the subtext which is very anti-gun . I don`t have a problem with that , but the more the story continues the more Oliver Stone ( I take it he was responsible ) decides to hit us over the head with his polemical anti-gun and anti-capitalist views by having the villain as a Wall Street trader . Worse it`s a Wall Street trader who seems to resemble Freddy Kruger or The Terminator , so as you can imagine any potential intelligence the premise might have had soon becomes forgotten . The irony is that the ending is so absurdly right wing and over the top not even Michael Winner would have taken it seriously .

First of all we should appreciate Kathryn as director and writer for this phenomenal thriller script which revolves around Jamie heroine/hero orientated in this movie in those times should be appreciated. Clancy's performance as decent detective was ok. Ron silver steals the show with his psychic expressions. Overall it's worth a watch.

This film begins well enough, building to what looks like being a promising study of a psychopath pitted against a feisty, but vulnerable, policewoman. Drawing on fear as a driver of eroticism, the unlikely relationship between Curtis and Silver develops to the edge of what might have been a great film. But sadly, at the halfway point, the story becomes unbelievable as both characters undertake actions that render the plot risible. Silver turns in an impressive performance as the deranged commodity trader and Curtis plays it adequately enough. But neither can do anything to save the plot line and the whole thing ends in a mess, with the hardware of weaponry taking over from the software of psychology that would have provided a far more intelligent film.