Blue Steel (1990)

On her first day on the job, rookie NYPD cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is the only officer on the scene when she shoots and kills the perpetrator of a grocery store hold-up.

No weapon is found on the (dead) perpetrator or at the scene and none of the witnesses can corroborate Megan’s story that the robber was wielding a gun, so she is suspended from active duty.

A spent shell casing used in a subsequent murder has her name carved on it and this ends up being only the first in a series of killings.

Megan finds herself temporarily reinstated as a homicide detective, working with detective Nick Mann (Clancy Brown).

The murderer turns out to be Wall Street commodities trader Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver) who she met immediately following her suspension and who she has since dated.

It turns out he was in the grocery store when Megan shot the robber and fled the scene with the bad guy’s gun.

The supermarket shooting evidently caused a psychotic reaction in Hunt resulting in his obsession with her and him turning into a psychopathic serial killer.

Despite his revelation to Megan, she has no hard evidence and has to convince her colleagues that she is telling the truth about Eugene, while stopping him from killing again.

It’s a slick production and the photography is dazzling (Manhattan looks glorious from a helicopter at night) – but it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Megan Turner
Jamie Lee Curtis
Eugene Hunt
Ron Silver
Nick Mann
Clancy Brown
Tracy Perez
Elizabeth Peña
Shirley Turner
Louise Fletcher
Frank Turner
Philip Bosco
Asst. Chief Stanley Hoyt
Kevin Dunn
Attorney Mel Dawson
Richard Jenkins
Husband
Markus Flanagan
Wife
Mary Mara
Instructor
Skipp Lynch
Police Commissioner
Mike Hodge
Superintendent
Mike Starr
Officer Jeff Travers
Chris Walker
Howard
Matt Craven
Trial Commissioner
John Capodice
PBA Representative
Sam Coppola
Helicopter Pilot
Al Cerullo
John Perez
Michael Philip Del Rio

Director
Kathryn Bigelow