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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616886446
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 24, 2003
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 30644
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt lapd officer to question his tactics. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 09/20/2005 Starring: Kurt Russell Lolita Davidovich Run time: 118 minutes Rating: R Director: Ron Shelton
Amazon.com:
The Rodney King riots of April 1992 hang like a keg of dynamite over Dark Blue, a crackling tale of Los Angeles police corruption that gives Kurt Russell one of the best roles of his underrated career. Adapted by Training Day screenwriter David Ayer from a story by L.A. Confidential novelist James Ellroy, the plot finds Russell's rule-bending detective teamed with a promising young partner (Scott Speedman) whose ethics have yet to be tainted. Their boss (Brendan Gleeson) is a lawless maverick, maneuvering the unwitting detectives into covering up a lucrative robbery scam, while L.A.P.D.'s Deputy Chief (Ving Rhames) campaigns to bring them all down. While adhering to familiar cop-thriller formula, director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) escalates tension with forceful impact, drawing a climactic parallel between the King riots and the fallout from Russell's cynical behavior. It's a powerhouse combination, allowing Russell to find shades of complexity in a character who realizes, almost too late, that he's a devil in the hell of L.A. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Rather disturbing, but a great film
It is hard to believe that this film did so poorly at the box office. It was written, in part, by the writer of Training Day and is as good or better then that one. A powerhouse cast led by Kurt Russell who in this movie looks every bit of his then fifty two years. But for this role of a burnt out, street weary, corrupt cop, his haggard appearance is perfect. The gritty subject matter contrasts sharply with the beautiful cinimatography which manages to make L.A.s smoggy skies look inviting. The jazzy ... Read More
Rating:  - More like a telenovela than anything else.
Plays like a made for tv movie, or worse. The script is so obvious and prosaic. There's drugs, sex, violence, dumb dialogue. I thought I was watching the lifetime channel for men. When has Kurt made a good movie
anyways? The ending is decent and at least has a point, but damn, the first 100 minutes is like having your hair pulled out one strand at a time.
Rating:  - Falls disappointingly short of its potential; "C+"
I was a little disappointed with this - Kurt Russell (the main reason I checked this out) does a fine job but it's the story that's lacking I think. There just isn't enough subtlety to it, evidenced in the amount of corruption that is portrayed and how "ordinary" the real bad guy turns out to be. The concept of setting this in the climate of the Rodney King incident was very creative and the writers did a good job of keeping that in our memory throughout the story. In the end though, while the story ... Read More
Rating: - KURUPT, AND DASH ARE GREAT
DARK BLUE
GREAT FILM
This film is as powerful as it is gripping and not necessarily because it is a classic film, because it's not. The film its self is a good film but not one of the all time greats, it's because of the subject matter in this film, and that makes it good. The film is centered around Eldon Perry {Kurt Russell} and his rookie partner played by Scott Speedman. As they are out to solve a robbery/multi homicide during the time of the Rodney King beating, which has everything/nothing ... Read More
Rating: - Russell and Rhames shine in this police drama...
Dark Blue takes place in 1992 and we often see in the background of the movie the event's that led up to the L.A. Riots, which first all started with the video of the Rodney King beating.
Russell is of course with the L.A.P.D. and is in deep with a brotherhood of corrupt cops, fabricated evidence, and cover up. His vigilante style of justice is troubling for his new rookie partner, a young, somewhat passive guy who is not sure if he can hang with the cronies who hide behind the badge.
Russell ... Read More
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