Blue Steel 1990

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Jamie Lee Curtis makes Megan so appealing and real that the film holds together even when it has no reason to. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Blue Steel turns into yet another movie about Jamie Lee Curtis bravely fighting off a bogeyman. It's Halloween 1990. Still, Bigelow's talent cuts through in flashes. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The plot is a little of "Fatal Attraction," a little of "Jagged Edge" and a little of "Wall Street." It works because it's so audacious in combining elements that don't seem to belong together. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Short on plausibility but preserving the psycho-sexual ambiguities throughout, Bigelow's seductively stylish, wildy fetishistic thriller is proof that a woman can enter a traditionally male world and, like Megan, beat men at their own game. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: What starts out as a moody arthouse flick rapidly becomes an uneven B-movie yukfest (sometimes intentional, sometimes not), with low-budget concessions to the Hollywood cop-versus-killer industry. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: A mean and unsavory celebration of misplaced misogyny milked for dollars, a mindless soup of urban neurosis and sexual loathing. Read more