Another classic action feature, also directed by Kathryn Bigelow, is “Blue Steel”, the 1990 ‘neo-noir’ thriller, starring svelte (ie. impossibly skinny) Jamie Lee Curtis as an N.Y.P.D. officer, and Ron Silver as a repulsive psycho, continually coming back for more, despite being shot more times than ‘Terminator’, now streaming for free on Tubi:
“…the film presents a harrowing deconstruction of misogyny at both psychological and institutional levels, and the terrors of urban womanhood in the late 20th Century, through the experience of a New York police officer…
“…who shoots and kills an armed criminal (Tom Sizemore) on her first day of active duty - only for a witness of the incident to steal the criminal's weapon and begin tormenting her life as the object of a homicidal obsession…”
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