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<text id=90TT0633>
<title>
Mar. 12, 1990: Cop vs. Creep
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 12, 1990 Soviet Disunion
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
CINEMA, Page 81
Cop vs. Creep
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<body>
<qt> <l>BLUE STEEL</l>
<l>Directed by Kathryn Bigelow</l>
<l>Screenplay by Kathryn Bigelow and Eric Red</l>
</qt>
<p> Wit always plays on Jamie Lee Curtis' fine lips. So when, as
rookie cop Megan Turner, she is asked why a pretty, peaceable
woman would care to be a New York City police officer, Curtis
smiles as she replies, "I wanted to shoot people." Since Blue
Steel is a weave of police story and lady-in-distress melodrama,
she will eventually get that opportunity. Her target will be
Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver), a Wall Street commodities trader whose
romantic intensity fascinates Megan at first, before she
realizes he is a psychopath. He murders at random and for
pleasure; after a kill, he swathes his torso in the blood from
his latest victim's sweater. "Death is the greatest kick of
all," he confides to Megan. "That's why they save it for last."
</p>
<p> Director Kathryn Bigelow is Hollywood's suavest young
stylist. Trained as a painter, she brings glamour, precision and
thrill to every image. This film, bound as it is by action-movie
conventions, hasn't the originality of her stunning horror drama
Near Dark, and toward the end Blue Steel spins goofily off
track. But it has a handsome time getting there, propelled by
Curtis' sensible sensuality and Silver's bravura creepiness.
These two help dramatize the danger any woman can find in the
desperate intimacy of a big city. By the climax, Megan has to
be thinking of Eugene and every other urban brute when she is
again asked, "So what made you become a cop?"
</p>
<p> "Him."
</p>
<p>By Richard Corliss.
</p>
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</article>
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