Dark Blue

USA 2002, 118 minutes
Dir. Ron Shelton
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Suspense/Crime / Policier

Feat. Kurt Russell, Ving Rhames, Brendan Gleeson, Lolita Davidovich

Aroview: Unexpectedly sharp police drama lifted from a James Ellroy story and placed into Los Angeles on the eve of the 1992 riots.

Expressing the semi-corrupt and amoral mindset of the LAPD with a heated verbal energy, Kurt Russell turns in a key performance as a veteran homicide detective investigating a mass killing. Support cast are similarly fine, proceedings only really dropping into conventionality (heartfelt speeches etc.) in the last twenty minutes.