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Black and Blue

  • 2019
  • R
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
25K
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Naomie Harris and Tyrese Gibson in Black and Blue (2019)
A rookie Detroit cop stumbles upon corrupt officers murdering a drug dealer, an incident captured by her body cam. They pursue her through the night in an attempt to destroy the footage, and to make matters worse, they've tipped off a criminal gang that she's responsible for the dealer's death.
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A rookie New Orleans police officer is forced to balance her identity as a black woman after she witnesses two corrupt cops committing murder.A rookie New Orleans police officer is forced to balance her identity as a black woman after she witnesses two corrupt cops committing murder.A rookie New Orleans police officer is forced to balance her identity as a black woman after she witnesses two corrupt cops committing murder.

  • Director
    • Deon Taylor
  • Writer
    • Peter A. Dowling
  • Stars
    • Naomie Harris
    • Tyrese Gibson
    • Frank Grillo
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    25K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Deon Taylor
    • Writer
      • Peter A. Dowling
    • Stars
      • Naomie Harris
      • Tyrese Gibson
      • Frank Grillo
    • 396User reviews
    • 82Critic reviews
    • 54Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations

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    Black And Blue: Frank Grillo On His Character
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    Naomie Harris in Black and Blue (2019)
    Frank Grillo in Black and Blue (2019)
    Tyrese Gibson in Black and Blue (2019)
    Tyrese Gibson in Black and Blue (2019)
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    Naomie Harris
    Naomie Harris
    • Alicia
    Tyrese Gibson
    Tyrese Gibson
    • Mouse
    Frank Grillo
    Frank Grillo
    • Terry Malone
    Mike Colter
    Mike Colter
    • Darius
    Reid Scott
    Reid Scott
    • Kevin
    Beau Knapp
    Beau Knapp
    • Smitty
    Nafessa Williams
    Nafessa Williams
    • Missy
    James Moses Black
    James Moses Black
    • Brown
    Carsyn Taylor
    • Jamal
    Lucky Johnson
    Lucky Johnson
    • Ox
    • (as Kevin Johnson)
    Deneen Tyler
    Deneen Tyler
    • Captain Hackett
    Michael Papajohn
    Michael Papajohn
    • Sergeant Leader
    Nelson Bonilla
    Nelson Bonilla
    • Doyle
    Frankie Smith
    Frankie Smith
    • Tez
    Oscar Gale
    Oscar Gale
    • Gas Station Owner
    Rhonda Johnson Dents
    Rhonda Johnson Dents
    • Old Woman
    • (as Rhonda Dents)
    Sam Malone
    Sam Malone
    • Tattooed Bad Guy
    John Charles II
    John Charles II
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      • Deon Taylor
    • Writer
      • Peter A. Dowling
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    • Trivia
      Major League Baseball player, Mitch Moreland of the Boston Red Sox, has an uncredited role as a New Orleans police officer storming the apartment complex.
    • Goofs
      While waiting in the squad car, West witnesses someone attempting to break into a car using a Slim Jim, once she scares him off, the camera pans over to the car, and the window is already partially down. There would be no need for a Slim Jim if you can just reach inside to open the door.
    • Quotes

      Alicia West: Murder is murder, no matter who you are.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Midnight Screenings: Black and Blue (2019)
    • Soundtracks
      Welcome to America
      Written by Lecrae (as Lecrae Moore), Symbolyc One (as Larry Griffin) and Justin Rhodes

      Performed by Lecrae

      Courtesy of Courage Music

      By arrangement with Nettwerk Music Group Inc.

    User reviews396

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    Endlessly generic but at least distracting; irony of the cast is that they both lift it, and deserve much better
    I've been a fan of Naomie Harris since she was in White Teeth, and I was interested to see this thriller with her in the lead, even if the trailer and everything I heard about it told me it would be generic at best. Unsurprisingly this is what it was - the type of thriller that you could stop after 15 minutes and pretty much guess the rest. Of course the reason why we know this type of plot is that some films have done it really well and made it a model to be leant on, but not this film. Instead it plays it out in the most obvious way, with little effort in the writing and no twists or turns to even vaguely excite - everything is heavily signposted as if they didn't trust the viewer to get anything by themselves. As it goes where you expect, it delivers enough distracting scenes to manage to get by, but everything is heavy-handed. The title is pretty obvious in its meaning, but it doesn't do anything clever with it, but it leans all over it from the very start. The actual thriller elements are also fairly basic and hard to believe and there was so much scope to be tighter and better.

    The blame lies in two very obvious places - writer and director. Neither of them have much in their filmography to be excited about. The writer did Flightpath and Reasonable Doubt - high points in his career but demonstrably not great films. The most notable thing about the director that I can see on his IMDb page is that his PR people wrote his bio - or at least I can't see any other reason why it says that he "is a self-taught, creative genius" when this film suggests he is absolutely not. The main selling point of the film is what brought me to it - the cast. Harris is much, much better than the material deserves; she puts in a lot of effort to show her rage, morality, desperation, but the writing does not help her one bit and too many lines clunk out of her mouth. It hurts because there was a much better film and performance here, and the writing takes it from her. Gibson is a bit better because he has more to work with, although not much. Grillo is reliable as ever, and the rest of the cast are mostly generic cariactures befitting such a generic film.

    It distracts and meets the low bar I came to it with, but it doesn't do anything more than that. The cast make it better than it is, but at the same time they are pretty much all wasted here.
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    • bob the moo
    • Aug 16, 2020

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    • Release date
      • October 25, 2019 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Exposure
    • Filming locations
      • DeGaulle Manor Housing Project - 3010 Sandra Drive, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA(Drug dealers apartment)
    • Production companies
      • Hidden Empire Film Group (HEFG)
      • Ireland Entertainment Productions
      • Royal Viking Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $12,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $22,055,313
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $8,376,846
      • Oct 27, 2019
    • Gross worldwide
      • $22,741,061
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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