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04/07/03
Dark Blue (2003)
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Reviews Counted:127
Fresh:73
Rotten:54
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Kurt Russell gives a good performance. Too bad there’s nothing here that you haven’t seen before.
Runtime: 3 hrs 56 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: There aren't many cops left like Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell). A member of the Los Angeles Police Department's Special Investigations Squad (SIS), veteran Perry is no stranger to the violence of the... [More]
Starring: Kurt Russell, Scott Speedman, Ving Rhames, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Ron Shelton
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07/08/03
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01/26/06
Top CriticNot bad, it's just that we've seen it before and we've seen it better.
02/20/03
Gritty, gripping, a bit uneven, but Kurt Russell hits all the right notes.
02/21/03
This is a hard movie to watch. "Dark Blue" paints its colors in black and white, before mixing to gray.
02/19/03
Dark Blue is another harrowingly cynical dirty-cop movie in the recent tradition of Training Day and Narc. Yet it's so much more complex, engrossing and satisfying than those films that the comparison is not entirely fair.
02/20/03
The movie has a distinctly dated vibe.
02/19/03
Rife with the kind of tension and betrayal that complements Kurt Russell's craggy good looks and simmering rage.
02/17/03
Shelton tackles every New York cop-film cliche here and gives them a bracing West Coast spin, capturing L.A. with the same breathless rapture others have brought to New York.
02/21/03
Shelton only achieves the intensity he's looking for at one point, when the riots finally break out and Perry has to drive through crowds of looters.
09/07/03
Once upon a time in Los Angeles, the air was dirty and the cops were clean. The only reason to see this movie is to see Kurt Russell again prove his consistency. Too bad there aren't Oscars for the Cal Ripken's of Hollywood.
03/11/03
Russell is the reason to go to the theater. He will continue to hold your attention when things around him -- like the storyline -- lose steam and credibility.
02/25/03
Its imagined grittiness is polished to a Hollywood high gloss. Its hard-edged dialogue...has had all its shock value re-written and over-rehearsed right out of it.
02/19/03
Dark Blue is a bit of a mess, but like the Rodney King mess, it makes you think. Any film that accomplishes that can never be out-of-date.
02/21/03
Despite a bombastic ending and several characters who look badly underwritten next to Eldon Perry, Dark Blue is a fairly good cop drama.
02/21/03
The movie proceeds to bog down in every by-the-book cop cliche known to man.
02/26/03
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