Dark Blue (+ Widescreen DVD) [Blu-ray] Overview
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 06/02/2009 Run time: 173 minutes Rating: Pg13
Dark Blue (+ Widescreen DVD) [Blu-ray] Specifications
The Rodney King riots of April 1992 hang like a keg of dynamite over Dark Blue, a crackling tale of Los Angeles police corruption that gives Kurt Russell one of the best roles of his underrated career. Adapted by Training Day screenwriter David Ayer from a story by L.A. Confidential novelist James Ellroy, the plot finds Russell's rule-bending detective teamed with a promising young partner (Scott Speedman) whose ethics have yet to be tainted. Their boss (Brendan Gleeson) is a lawless maverick, maneuvering the unwitting detectives into covering up a lucrative robbery scam, while L.A.P.D.'s Deputy Chief (Ving Rhames) campaigns to bring them all down. While adhering to familiar cop-thriller formula, director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) escalates tension with forceful impact, drawing a climactic parallel between the King riots and the fallout from Russell's cynical behavior. It's a powerhouse combination, allowing Russell to find shades of complexity in a character who realizes, almost too late, that he's a devil in the hell of L.A. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
This film takes gray is another film with Veternik COP (Kurt Russell) who do what to kill the bad with a new and idealistic younger partner (Scott Speedman) is saddled. Narc, Street Kings, Training Day, and all come to mind as having similar vibration. Kurt Russell brings a certain sympathy for his character, however, and in this type of movie I always root for the policeman who sweeps away the bad. The standard conflict between partners, andThings that increase the resolution is almost predictable. If it were not for Kurt Russell, this would be only 3 stars.
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