Dark Blue is a bitter, often stunning sewer elegy for the little-man-as-monster, the nobody who thinks he's somebody but who is just a stooge trapped within a corrupt system.

| Jan 30, 2020

With Oscar season 2003 barely underway, our attention is already shifting to Oscar 2004, and in particularly, to Kurt Russell, who without a doubt, should be among next year's list of Best Actor contenders given his performance in Dark Blue.

| Nov 7, 2019

It's not totally without merit (Kurt, mostly) but there's little nuance or replay-ability here.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 29, 2019

Violent police detective teaches his partner.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2007

Russell fans, take note: This is probably the strongest work he's done in movies.

| Original Score: A | Jul 29, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Using the real-life Rodney King mess as a backdrop is pretty tawdry exploitation.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Oct 15, 2004

| Original Score: 1/10 | Oct 7, 2004

While it doesn't avoid the familiar and formulaic (what cop movie does these days?), DARK BLUE was a pleasant surprise, and proved that Russell can save just about anything

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 8, 2004

Kurt Russell, um ator sempre subestimado, oferece mais uma performance digna de aplausos neste interessante filme cuja trama foi concebida por James Ellroy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2004

Dark Blue gets the brain working and sheds light on a controversial topic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 6, 2004

[A] gritty police drama addressing the matter of what police work does to the people who do it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2003

Shelton only achieves the intensity he's looking for at one point, when the riots finally break out and Perry has to drive through crowds of looters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2003

Dark Blue has a seamy slow-burn energy, charged by its narrative and thematic tie-ins with the 1992 Los Angeles riots and a dynamite lead performance from Kurt Russell.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2003

...standard, formulaic, Hollywood crime fluff.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 22, 2003

As Perry literally descends into hell during the L.A. riots, the film takes on an eerie melancholia powered by Russell's impassioned lead.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2003