Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. That same someone carves Turner's name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders. Turner teams up with detective Nick Mann to clear her name and catch the killer. But she is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who's always one step ahead… and much closer than she thinks!
Blue Steel is a 1990 American action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown. The film presents a harrowing deconstruction of male gaze, 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 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.
