Dark Blue

Goes where all too few films dare to venture these days -- into the heart of moral darkness.Read Full Review »

Shelton's harrowing and compulsively watchable morality play.Read Full Review »

Not a great movie, but it has moments that go off the meter and find visceral impact. The characters driving through the riot-torn streets of Los Angeles provide some of them, and the savage, self-hating irony of Russell's late dialogue provides the rest.Read Full Review »

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.Read Full Review »

A film of wounding power. It stays with you.Read Full Review »

This is ultimately a conversion melodrama, and a clumsy one. But until it goes to hell, it's thrillingly good, a fervid answer to the spate of cop movies that glorify brutality and sanction ends over means.Read Full Review »

In the end, the problem with movies like Dark Blue is that they willfully ignore the systemic, historical, cultural, and class causes of racism in favor of pinning it all on a few bad apples. Sure, that's entertainment. It's also a lie.Read Full Review »

There's at least one plot element too many here; let your own taste determine which one. Yet until it dissolves into conventional melodrama during a climactic fracas, this fast-paced story is never less than watchable.Read Full Review »

The movie ends not with a bang but a wimp.Read Full Review »

Unfortunately, the rest of the movie does not live up to Mr. Russell's performance.Read Full Review »