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As Good As It Gets

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Blistering performances.

NYPD rookie beat cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) kills a hold-up robber on her first day. One of the victims, psychotic Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver) steals the robber's gun. None of the victims can corroborate Megan's story and she struggles to clear her name. Hunt starts killing with the gun and engineers a romance with Turner. A shell casing with Turner's name carved into it is found at the crime scene and she's reinstated working under homicide detective Nick Mann (Clancy Brown) on the case. Eventually, Hunt reveals himself to Turner and later, attacks her and her friend Tracy (Elizabeth Peña).Director Kathryn Bigelow instills a kind of dark brutality to this story. The slow motion action isn't thrilling but has an artistic flavor. Curtis is great and Silver is interesting as a psychopath. There are problems with the story. I can't believe that nobody saw the gun. It would be more believable if it is only a kid behind the counter who doesn't want to get involved. At its best, I'm reminded of other dark thrillers like Se7en but there are a few head-scratchers too.

"Blue Steel" features a solid pe4rformance from Jamie Lee Curtis and the stylish direction you've come to expect from Kathryn Bigelow, but its story about a crazy serial killer preying on a rookie officer is predicated on some sketchy writing. So, Curtis is the tough lady cop who foils a grocery robbery, and Ron Silver the bystander who witnesses the shooting and (by the way) pockets the robber's gun. None of the witnesses come to Curtis' support that she fired in self-defense? From the outset, she's on the defensive from everybody, including her own brothers in blue. And from then on, it's one contrivance after another that lets Silver slip through the cracks. After awhile, you just start pulling your hair.This is forgettable stalker material, but Bigelow at least keeps things moving.5/10

This thriller is the proof that Jamie Lee is indeed a cute and talented actress but the story is totally crap ! I thought it was a realistic cop movie in which the cop is a woman but it's just about a crazy lover killer who is just unbelievable as much as in his motives and his acts ! Worst, the movie just can't stop and abuses cliffhangers (at her parents, with her friend, with her boyfriend (twice), in the city !). It's so dumb that it ignores flatly characters evolution : at the beginning, Jamie shot coldly a criminal and at the end, Jamie shot again coldly a criminal. As the crazy lover killer's gun jams, Jamie's one could jam also or better she could have chosen to do a clean job and have this crazy lover killer arrested ! But no, she just keep pushing the trigger ! So, sure, there was a wolf in Wall Street but this NYPD interlude left me with the blues !

This is an incredible movie. It is the story of a psycho-killer as seen by the psycho-killer. But that isn't explained to you. You're sitting there thinking this is simply another cop flick but then slowly, as nothing makes sense, no logic is followed, not one character acts as a normal person would act--not once, after literally hundreds, if not thousands, of these digressions from real life on earth, you eventually realize that nothing is supposed to make sense. And when I say nothing, I mean not one thing. Not one action. Not one character acts realistically not once. Do you know of that movie that scientists had monkeys in a zoo write once as an experiment? Well that script made more sense than this one. Wow. Not even the extras in Blue Steel acted normally, not once. It makes as much sense to call Blue Steel a police thriller as to call The Three Stooges Meet Hercules a serious drama about the exploration of outer space. Have you ever seen a porno film? Surely the stupidest one in the world must make more sense than Blue Steel. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, and the rest are as entertaining acting as ever but, wow, the houseflies I just swatted, as they were repeatedly bouncing off my windows, were acting more logically than any character in Blue Steel. I'm surprised this movie didn't lead to a new slang term for making no sense, e.g. when you see a spider spin cobwebs in your basement until you squoosh him and throw him in the trash, you should say, "Well, so much for that Blue Steeler."