Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jamie Lee Curtis | ... | Megan Turner | |
Ron Silver | ... | Eugene Hunt | |
Clancy Brown | ... | Nick Mann | |
Elizabeth Peña | ... | Tracy Perez (as Elizabeth Pena) | |
Louise Fletcher | ... | Shirley Turner | |
Philip Bosco | ... | Frank Turner | |
Kevin Dunn | ... | Asst. Chief Stanley Hoyt | |
Richard Jenkins | ... | Attorney Mel Dawson | |
Markus Flanagan | ... | Husband (as Markus Flannagan) | |
Mary Mara | ... | Wife | |
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Skipp Lynch | ... | Instructor |
Mike Hodge | ... | Police Commissioner | |
Mike Starr | ... | Superintendant | |
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Chris Walker | ... | Officer Jeff Travers |
Tom Sizemore | ... | Wool Cap |
On her first day on the job, NYPD officer Megan Turner, the lone officer on the scene, shoots and kills the perpetrator of a supermarket hold-up. Since no gun was found on the perpetrator's person or at the scene and none of the witnesses could corroborate Megan's story definitively that the perpetrator was indeed wielding a gun, she is suspended from active duty. She is quickly albeit temporarily reinstated to the position of homicide detective because the spent shell casing from the bullet used in a subsequent murder had her name carved on it. This murder ends up being only the first in a series. Working on the case with fellow homicide detective Nick Mann, Megan initially has no idea who in her life could be the murderer. In short order, the murderer does show himself to her. He is commodities trader Eugene Hunt who she met immediately following her suspension and who she has since dated. He also implies to her that he was in the supermarket at the time of the hold-up and that he ... Written by Huggo
When rookie cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) kills a convenience store robber, she does not notice when psychopathic commodities trader Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver) takes the dead man's gun. With no weapon at the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. Meanwhile, Hunt uses the stolen weapon to go on a killing spree. Turner teams up with detective Nick Mann (Clancy Brown) to clear her name and catch the killer. An unexpected romance complicates matters.
The plot is a little of "Fatal Attraction," a little of "Jagged Edge" and a little of "Wall Street." It works because it's so audacious in combining elements that don't seem to belong together. Blue Steel captures a certain moment in the 1990s when the psychosexual thriller reigned supreme, with a blending of sensuality and menace. It's a fairly run-of-the-mill premise thats reinforced by Bigelow's disruption of narrative conventions, preserving the psycho-sexual ambiguities throughout, Bigelow's seductively stylish, wildy fetishistic thriller is proof that a woman can enter a traditionally male world and, like Megan, beat men at their own game. Jamie Lee Curtis makes Megan so appealing and real that the film holds together even when it has no reason to.