True Blue (2001)

Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a ... See full summary »

Director:

J.S. Cardone

Writer:

J.S. Cardone

Stars:

Tom Berenger, Lori Heuring, Pamela Gidley

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tom Berenger	...	Rembrandt Macy
Lori Heuring	...	Nikki
Pamela Gidley	...	Beck
Barry Newman	...	Monty
Soon-Tek Oh	...	Tiger
Leo Lee	...	Benny Lee
Richard Chevolleau	...	Toots
Alec McClure	...	Bouton
Yanna McIntosh	...	Anna
F.J. Flynn	...	C.J.
Albert Chung	...	Eddie Trang
Joseph Di Mambro	...	Joey Palo (as Joseph DiMambro)
Len Doncheff	...	Koko
Jefferson Mappin	...	Cronk
Shawn Lawrence	...	Bass

Storyline

Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to understanding the victim is through one of her roommates, Nikki. Through Nikki and others, Macy learns of the victim's shady contacts at City Hall, the involvement of a gang of Asian drug runners, and the sordid affairs of one of the city's bigwigs. As Macy begins to understand how all these crimes fit together, he learns that his new friend Nikki is not an innocent bystander.

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Plot Keywords:

neo noir | blackmail | nudity | nightmare | houseboat | 

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Taglines:

Some crimes are impossible to solve. Some suspects are impossible to resist.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence, sexual content and language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 November 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

Cold Crime

Filming Locations:

Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sandstorm Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When they are examining the corpse of the man who used to run an orphanage his eye twitches and he can be seen swallowing.

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Quotes

Rembrandt Macy: [to someone in a morgue] Boy, I hope I never end up on one of your slabs

User Reviews

This isn't a movie it's just a steak dinner

Anyone familiar with the works of writer/director J.S. Cardone will doubtless know that the man never seems to rest on his laurels for long, having filmed this cop thriller hot on the heels of his vampire yarn "The Forsaken".

Now herein lies the question, director Cardone is prolific yes, dabbling in a variety of genres, now aside from gigs like "Shadowzone" "The Slayer" and "Crash And Burn" written or directed by Cardone down through the last two decades, the vast majority of the man's work has mainly consisted of dark and brooding thrillers, whereby deep beneath the surface of the story, lurks many a festering heart.

Such is the case with "True Blue" starring Tom Berenger as Detective Rembrandt "Rem" Macy another one of those hard drinking,chain smoking cops on the edge. Now when i first looked at the cover for this movie, i thought to myself, where is Tom Berenger, Looking at the front of the cover you'll find a cosmetically reconstructed Tom looking kinda like Huckleberry Hound, when you flip over to read the synopsis, you catch sight of the real Mr Berenger, gone to pot and a looking like both "Platoon" and "Someone To Watch Over Me" had never hapened!

If you were to say that this was thriller, reading the front and back of the video/dvd cover would indeed make you believe so. However this is just another steak dinner swimming around in Tom's gut.

No harm no fowl to anybody involved in this movie, as i like anyone, loves a good yarn, but Cardone has not done us any favours here by parading an endless dislay of situations wrapped up in a scenario that could've popped up in anything from Homicide to NYPD Blue.

An Ironic twist kicking around in this movie, is the lead character's name, unlike his famous other, Rem Macy is most definitely no oil painting, which was also mirrored in his living habits. I guess in hindsight the casting of Berenger was a stroke of genius, as he was looking in need of the work.

Watch this movie and remember the scene in "Platoon" when Berenger's character and Willem Dafoe's square off in the vietnamese village, you wonder could Dafoe maybe sometime pay Berenger a visit and slap some sense into him, and perhaps be a bit more choosy about his next role, which judging by his character's chain smoking habit, could be the next advert warning upon the perils of killing your lungs!

But hey this was only a movie, take it or leave it, until J.S. Cardone conjurs up his next slice of over ripe hokum.