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Ron Shelton,
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: MGM
: Neo Noir, Crime, Cops
: 118 min.
: English, Spanish, French
: English, Spanish, French
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A cop's personal code of justice begins to change after a number of incidents lead his city to a tragic wave of violence in this police drama. Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell) is a veteran cop with the LAPD's Special Investigations unit, a man who isn't above bending the law if it means putting people behind bars who deserve the treatment. As Los Angeles waits on the verdict in the Rodney King police beating trial, Perry is presenting testimony to Assistant Chief of Police Arthur Holland (Ving Rhames), who is well aware of the corruption in the SIS unit and wants to stop it. Perry, however, twists some facts as he speaks in the defense of his new partner, Bobby Keough (Scott Speedman), who is being investigated for inappropriate use of deadly force. For lack of honest testimony, Keough is let off the hook, and soon he and Perry have a new case to investigate -- a robbery at a liquor store than turned into a quadruple homicide. Perry and Keough quickly track down two likely suspects, Orchard (Kurupt) and Sidwell (Dash Mihok), but Perry is surprised when the head of SIS, Van Meter (Brendan Gleeson), tells him to let Orchard and Sidwell go, and instead points the finger at two ex-cons who should be taken off the street, even though they're innocent of this crime. Perry follows Van Meter's orders, despite Keough's misgivings, but in the wake of the L.A. riots, Perry has a change of heart, and decides to start working with Holland against Van Meter's corrupt methods. In the midst of it all, Perry is trying to hold together his troubled marriage to Sally (Lolita Davidovich), while Keough finds himself romancing a fellow officer, Beth (Michael Michele). Dark Blue was adapted from an original screenplay by noted crime novelist James Ellroy; originally set against the backdrop of the 1965 Watts riots, the story was later updated to 1992. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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by rmarkd
September 27, 2003 - 3:51 PM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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Dark Blue is a perfectly fine movie rental if you're looking to spend a night at home with a movie. It has the nice action sequences, nice twists and turns, nice acting. It's a movie that satisfies the viewer for 2 hours, but is forgotten within a few days.
I did enjoy the time the movie took place -- during the Rodney King beating trial. Issues of race and cops going over the line to keep the streets safe (or convince themselves that that is what they're doing) peak right at the time the innocent verdict comes in.
Things are nicely packaged in the end with a Russell monologue that carries on and almost everone gets some version of justice in the end. |
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