Dark Blue | | Cast : | Kurt Russell, Scott Speedman, Ving Rhames | | Director : | Ron Shelton | | Studio : | MGM/UA Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | February 21, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | June 24, 2003 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 28, 2005 | | Summary | I love it when a pig goes down... | Content
 | Great to see a movie that portrays the racism that pervades police departments across this good ole USA. It's interesting that this movie came out around the same time frame as Training Day and was damn near swept under the rug and straight to DVD, but Denzel gets an Oscar for playing a criminal cop. Like Arsenio used to say...Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | KURT RUSSELL IS (STILL) A VERY STRONG ACTOR!!! GO KURT!!! | Content
| THIS IS A DVD THAT I THOUGHT WAS DATED. NOT! IT WAS MADE IN 2002/3, AND DESERVES WIDE VIEWING. I THOUGHT I MAY HAVE SEEN THE TITLE, BUT I HAD NOT. IT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH OTHER PREVIOUS SIMILAR TITLES. DONT PASS THIS BY, IT IS GRITTY AND ARTISTICALLY REALISTIC. THE GRIT OF SOUTH CENTRAL L.A., IS AUTHENTIC AND HAS ITS OWN PARTICULAR BIG CITY BEAUTY OF A SLUM AREA. SHARE THIS DVD OR TITLE WITH FRIENDS....IT IS WELL WORTH THE RIDE IN A BLACK AND WHITE. IT IS SIMILAR TO "THE SHIELD" ON FX, BUT DEALS WITH THE RODNEY KING RIOTS IN L.A., AS A BACKDROP. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 20, 2005 | | Summary | very good movie | Content
| I liked the movie very much, and then I read reviews and somebody mentioned that LA Confidential is a better movie. We went out to rent it...what a joke...several times during that movie we just had to look at ourselves with confused looks and say "What???".
Seriously, I cannot imagine what people find wrong with this movie, but I guess to each his own. One idiot even said that "Edge" with Hopkins is one of the worst movies he's seen...Give me a break...even 8MM...got bad reviews from some people...can anyone please explain that to me...are we really all that different??? |
| Rating | | | Date | February 25, 2005 | | Summary | packs a punch thriller action story slight drama movie | Content
| wow what a great movie. I saw the trailer and said to myself. I have to see this. and I did get it on dvd and am glad I bought it. watched it 2 times already. it will be viewed more over the days and years. it really does show police corruption at its worst. very good character acting. very good scenery. brilliant direction and directing. amazing ending. made me think there might be a sequal but in a way we don't need one. at least I don't think so. then again if one ever did come out I'd give it a chance. I just dont' think we might not need a sequal because I think the whole main points come to light at the end of the movie. and the viewer understands all that was said and shown.
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| Rating | | | Date | December 31, 2004 | | Summary | Blue wall of corruption | Content
| Kurt Russell is convincing as an alcoholic, ruthless and corrupt L.A. police detective sergeant Eldon Perry. Perry, a member of Special Investigations Squad (SIS), is a third generation cop totally bereft of scruples and feelings including those for his wife and son in a crumbling marriage. Russell is breaking in a new partner, Scott Speedman, to the mechanics of the street on the eve of the riots following the acquittal of the cops implicated in the Rodney King beating. Russell's boss and head of SIS, the despicable Jack Van Meter, played by heavy Brendan Gleason is lining his own pockets with graft. He is secretly orchestrating a robbery ring that is netting gobs of cash using 2 compromised and drug addicted informants to do his bidding. When a robbery goes bad resulting in 4 homicides, Gleason orders the unwitting Russell to clean up his mess.
Ving Rhames. playing stoic and ethical assistant chief of police, Arthur Holland is wise to the rampant corruption but lacks the proof to implicate Gleason.
Russell running wild like a loose cannon through the racially charged ghettoes of South Central L.A. begins to question his morality when ordered by Gleason to frame innocents for crimes committed by Gleason's robbery team.
Russell does an outstanding job in portraying this conflicted anti-hero who begins to see the light as his life is falling apart around him. Gleason is an effective scoundrel as the corrupt police chief. This portrayal of the 1992 L.A. riots is done very authentically |
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