1. Plot

2. Cast

3. Release
     Critical reception    Box office  

4. See also

5. References

6. External links

• Edward R. Pressman
• Oliver Stone
• Lawrence Kasanoff

• Kathryn Bigelow
• Eric Red^[1]

• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Ron Silver
• Clancy Brown
• Elizabeth Peña
• Louise Fletcher

• Lightning Pictures
• Mack-Taylor Productions
• Precision Films

The film was initially set to be released by Vestron Pictures and its offshoot label Lightning Pictures, but it was ultimately acquired by MGM due to Vestron's financial problems and eventual bankruptcy at the time.

Plot

Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie NYPD patrol officer who shoots and kills a suspect (Tom Sizemore) with her service revolver while he's holding up a neighborhood market. The suspect's .44 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 29 handgun lands on the floor of the market in the shopping area as the suspect is blown backward through the front window.

As she continues to the checkout area, Turner nearly steps on the suspect's handgun directly in front of Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver), a psychopathic commodities trader. Unnoticed, Hunt takes the gun and slips away, using it to commit several bloody and brutal murders over the next few days. Because the robber's weapon was not found at the scene, Turner is accused of killing an unarmed man.

While she attempts to clear her name with Assistant Chief Stanley Hoyt (Kevin Dunn) and her superiors, Hunt begins to date the suspended Turner, with whom he has become obsessed. One night, he reveals that he was in the supermarket at the time of the hold-up, and that he left with the perpetrator's gun. He also implies that he is the person behind the recent killings. Turner arrests him but he is freed by his attorney, Mel Dawson (Richard Jenkins), due to a lack of hard evidence.

Turner fights to keep her badge and solve the murders with the help of Detective Nick Mann (Clancy Brown). Hunt turns up at her apartment and kills her best friend, Tracy (Elizabeth Peña), before rendering Turner unconscious. This causes Turner to have an emotional breakdown. She goes to Hunt's apartment with Mann to arrest him, but Hunt's attorney prevents her from doing so and threatens to have her fired.

Seeking comfort from her mother, Turner visits her family home, an uncomfortable place because her father physically abused her mother throughout her childhood. When she arrives, she finds that her mother has again been abused by her father. Enraged, Turner handcuffs her father and drives off with him to talk, in an attempt to finally put an end to his abuse. When they return to the house, Hunt is sitting with her mother. A tense exchange takes place between the two, where they both imply that they are armed. When he leaves, she follows him to his apartment, where she spends the night staking him out.

The next morning, Turner follows Hunt to the park, where he has buried his gun. Mann interrupts another standoff between Hunt and Turner, and Hunt runs off. Believing that he will return for the murder weapon, they stake out the park. Turner sees the beam of a flashlight and assumes it is Hunt searching for the gun. She leaves the car to apprehend him, but not before handcuffing Mann to the steering wheel to prevent him from following her. The flashlight turns out to be a ruse: Hunt paid a homeless person to hold it. Back at the car, Hunt is holding Mann at gunpoint and is about to kill him. Turner appears and fires her gun, shooting him in the arm.

Mann and Turner return to her apartment, where unbeknownst to them, Hunt is patching up his wound in her bathroom. Turner and Mann sleep together. Mann is ambushed by Hunt when he goes to the bathroom. Turner doesn't hear the shot because it was muffled. Hunt attacks and rapes her, and she shoots him, but he flees. Mann is unconscious and taken to the hospital, where Turner is told that he will make it.

Determined to find Hunt and finish him off, Turner finally shoots and kills him after a long and violent confrontation in the middle of Wall Street and a bullet wound to her shoulder. She is then taken away in an ambulance.

Cast

• Jamie Lee Curtis as Megan Turner
• Ron Silver as Eugene Hunt
• Clancy Brown as Nick Mann
• Elizabeth Peña as Tracy
• Louise Fletcher as Shirley Turner
• Philip Bosco as Frank Turner
• Richard Jenkins as Dawson
• Kevin Dunn as Asst. Chief Stanley Hoyt
• Tom Sizemore as Robber
• Mary Mara as Wife
• Skipp Lynch as Instructor
• Mike Hodge as Police Commissioner
• Mike Starr as Superintendant

Release

Critical reception

The film gained mixed to positive reviews,^[5][6][7][8] garnering a "fresh" 71% rating on rotten tomatoes based on 21 reviews. Film critic Roger Ebert compared it to John Carpenter's Halloween, noting: "Blue Steel is a sophisticated update of Halloween, the movie that first made Jamie Lee Curtis a star. (...) What makes it more interesting than yet another sequel to Halloween is the way the filmmakers have fleshed out the formula with intriguing characters and a few angry ideas."

Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale.^[9]

Box office

The film was not a box office success.^[10]

See also

• List of films featuring home invasions

References

External links

• {{IMDb title|0099160|Blue Steel}}
• {{Mojo title|bluesteel|Blue Steel}}
• {{Rotten-tomatoes|1028554-blue_steel|Blue Steel}}

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