Kathryn Bigelow directs Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown in this female cop thriller where a rookie is stalked by a psycho stock broker who has stolen her gun.

Illogical and tonally wobbly as fuck. Blue Steel actually struggles to work as pulp. Feels a bit too indebted to Michael Mann’s Manhunter (I know that should be a positive). Androgynous Jamie Lee is awesome though. And the movie loves the gun. Fetishises it. There are some cracking tension crankers here – the supermarket robbery, the best friend’s ultra gory death, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”. Shame the story pumped in around them is so haphazard.

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Perfect Double Bill: Terror Train (1980)

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