Blue Steel (1989)

Directed by

Kathryn Bigelow

Genre

action film, crime film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 465 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A rookie New York police officer kills an armed criminal in self-defense on her first day. The incident attracts a dangerous admirer who steals the man's gun and begins stalking her.

tenseharrowingpsychologicalclaustrophobicgrittysuspensefulurbandark

What happens

Blue Steel is a 1990 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown. The film presents a harrowing deconstruction of male gaze, misogyny at both psychological and institutional levels, and the terrors of urban womanhood in the late 20th Century; through the experience of a New York police officer who shoots and kills an armed criminal on her first day of active duty - only for a witness of the incident to steal the criminal's weapon and begin tormenting her life as the object of a homicidal obsession. Blue Steel was originally set to be released by Vestron Pictures and its offshoot label Lightning Pictures, but the film was ultimately acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer due to Vestron's financial problems and eventual bankruptcy. The film was green lit and produced by Lawrence Kasanoff, Lightning’s head of production at that time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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