SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

dworldeater Top notch gritty police thriller based on a story from James Ellroy and written for the screen by David Ayer. Dark Blue is directed by Ron Sheldon(who normally makes sports movies) did a good job here and his approach to the material works well. Kurt Russell delivers one of his absolute best performances as Eldon Perry. Perry is LAPD detective that comes from a family that practiced law enforcement since the days of frontier towns. There is no question that Eldon is an exceptional detective with good instincts and the tough resolve necessary to be good at his occupation. However it is his methods that cross the line of the law and human decency. He is working on a homicide case with his rookie partner where he imparts his knowledge and puts him through a hazing process that he most likely went through, to show his method of law enforcement. Kurt does a great job in humanizing this corrupted and violent man on a downward spiral, of which his life is starting to rapidly go down the toilet. Dark Blue takes place in early 90's LA around the time of the Rodney King case and the riots that follow. Dark Blue definitely shows the dark side of law enforcement with corruption, blackmail and police brutality. This film is quite action packed , but is very much a character study of Eldon Perry with a astounding performance by Kurt. The very under rated Ving Rhames is also excellent as his adversary, assistant police Chief Arthur Holland who is building a case on Eldon and his partner to bring down his ultra corrupt boss Jack Van Meter. Dark Blue is a great thriller that holds up and is quite under rated in my opinion.

adonis98-743-186503 Kurt Russell gives a great dark performance in this film Dark Blue is a great underrated film a good cast in a very good film even tho is something we have seen before in many movies the performance alone of Russell is something that you shouldn't skip. The rest of the cast does a pretty good job the movie got a 58% on Rotten Tomatoes although not that bad is not that good either at least a 70 would be fine a good good action/thriller/drama film about Dirty Cops and the choices you have to make it's really sad that we don't get to see a lot of Kurt Russell today he is a very great actor and pretty underrated. Final Verdict: 10 out of 10.

moderniste I was kind of shocked into submission by "Dark Blue". The movie doesn't slow down from minute 1 and it's not a short film, so that edge of your seat adrenaline might seem to fade, but it didn't for me--all the way to the awesome Kurrupt remix of a Porno for Pyros track during the credits. That song was so right on for the overall theme of the film that it got me off the couch to write this review.This was the rare cop movie with very few scenes, if any, of gratuitous violence, though the film is very violent and angry. The filming of the LA riot scenes were chilling--because I was actually in LA during them and saw some crazy stuff. Whomever set up the sets for those shots had to have been there--the sheer chaos and random, explosive aggression out of nowhere was intimately captured. Scary stuff.Kurt Russell has played so many cops that you almost think that he'd be uncastable at this point. This is not the case. This is the darkest, and most tortured I've ever seen him, and it's because his character is truly complex, and not all a bad guy. You are appalled at what he does, and yet root for him because he has an essential goodness in him that he painfully and tragically redeems at the film's end.Another masterful LA movie in the same pantheon, though perhaps maybe one or two steps down from "LA Confidential" and the king of them all, "Chinatown".

mvassa71 About halfway through this movie, I realized I hadn't blinked once. That's when I knew that I was watching a really good film. Kurt Russell is no slouch of an actor. He was riveting. This was a well crafted cop flick where everyone seems to have dirt on someone else, and meanwhile, there are crimes being committed, and L.A. is about to erupt in rioting.The great thing about this flick is that it doesn't try to be more than it is. Which is just a very entertaining, suspenseful cop movie.Well worth a watch.Or two.