History Film / BlueSteel

* DomesticAbuse: Megan's father, who disapproves of his daughter becoming a cop, starts to mistreat his wife. Megan eventually arrests him for domestic abuse.

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''Blue Steel'' is a 1989 thriller directed by Creator/KathrynBigelow for Creator/VestronPictures, starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/RonSilver, Creator/ClancyBrown, Creator/LouiseFletcher, Creator/ElizabethPena, and Kevin Dunn.

Megan Turner (Curtis) is a rookie cop in the New York Police Department. When she stops a robbery by shooting the perpetrator (a young Creator/TomSizemore), the weapon is stolen by Eugene Hunt (Silver), a Wall Street banker who soon discovers that he enjoys killing people and becomes enamored with the female cop. He manages to start a relationship with Megan, but when she finds out that he's the killer they've been looking for, a cat and mouse game ensues as Hunt goes to increasingly violent means to take back Megan, while trying to ensure he doesn't get turned in.

Don't confuse this with the 1934 western film of the same name starring Creator/JohnWayne, or [[{{Film/Zoolander}} Derek Zoolander's]] look.

* AxCrazy: Eugene Hunt is a stockbroker and by all outward appearances a normal person but who under the cover of night goes on a killing rampage after he acquires a .44 Magnum from a robber whom the protagonist, rookie cop Megan Turner, shoots early in the film. [[spoiler: By the final act of the film he has gone completely ballistic and shoots and kills Megan's friend and later sneaks into her house, strips himself completely naked and brutally rapes her shortly after she has consensual sex with a fellow officer.]]

Megan Turner (Curtis) is a recently graduated rookie cop in the New York Police Department. When she stops a robbery by shooting the perpetrator (a young Creator/TomSizemore), the weapon is stolen by Eugene Hunt (Silver), a Wall Street banker who soon discovers that he enjoys killing people and becomes enamored with the female cop. He manages to start a relationship with Megan, but when she finds out that he's the killer they've been looking for, a cat and mouse game ensues as Hunt goes to increasingly violent means to take back Megan, while (naturally, because, you know, he's a murderer and she's a cop) trying to ensure he doesn't get turned in.

* NotSoDifferent: Eugene Hunt declares that he and Turner are two sides of the same coin.

Don't confuse this with the 1934 western film of the same name starring Creator/JohnWayne, or [[{{Film/Zoolander}} Derek Zoolander's]] new look.

Don't confuse this with the 1934 western film of the same name starring Creator/JohnWayne.

''Blue Steel'' is a 1989 thriller directed by Creator/KathrynBigelow, starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/RonSilver, Creator/ClancyBrown, Creator/LouiseFletcher, Creator/ElizabethPena, and Kevin Dunn.

''Blue Steel'' is a 1989 thriller directed by Creator/KathrynBigelow, starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/RonSilver and Creator/ClancyBrown.

Megan Turner (Curtis) is a recently graduated rookie cop in the New York Police Department. When she stops a robbery by shooting the perpetrator, the weapon is stolen by Eugene Hunt (Silver), a Wall Street banker who soon discovers that he enjoys killing people and becomes enamored with the female cop. He manages to start a relationship with Megan, but when she finds out that he's the killer they've been looking for, a cat and mouse game ensues as Hunt goes to increasingly violent means to take back Megan, while (naturally, because, you know, he's a murderer and she's a cop) trying to ensure he doesn't get turned in.

''Blue Steel'' is a 1989 thriller directed by Creator/KathrynBigelow, starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Ron Silver and Creator/ClancyBrown.

Megan Turner is a recently graduated rookie cop in the New York Police Department. When she stops a robbery by shooting the perpetrator, the weapon is stolen by Eugene Hunt, a Wall Street banker who soon discovers that he enjoys killing people and becomes enamored with the female cop. He manages to start a relationship with Megan, but when she finds out that he's the killer they've been looking for, a cat and mouse game ensues as Hunt goes to increasingly violent means to take back Megan, while (naturally, because, you know, he's a murderer and she's a cop) trying to ensure he doesn't get turned in.

''Blue Steel'' is a 1989 thriller directed by Creator/KathrynBigelow, starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis and Creator/ClancyBrown.

''Blue Steel'' is a 1989 thriller directed by Creator/KathrynBigelow, starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis.

Megan Turner is a recently graduated rookie cop in the New York Police Department. When she stops a robbery by shooting the perpetrator, the weapon is stolen by Eugene Hunt, a Wall Street banker who soon discovers that he enjoys killing people and becomes enamored with the female cop. He manages to start a relationship with Megan, but when she finds out that he's the killer they've been looking for, a cat and mouse game ensues as Hunt goes to increasingly violent means to take back Megan.

* PyrrhicVictory: Rookie cop Megan Turner has to play a cat and mouse game with a homicidal psychopath who is [[{{Yandere}} infatuated with her]]. The guy kills most of the people close to Megan, including [[spoiler:her best friend and the veteran homicide detective who falls in love with her]], and even rapes her, but he manages to stay out of custody each time because he's also a respected businessman and they can't offer enough proof despite Megan's testimony. She only ends up defeating him [[spoiler:by engaging in a public shoot-out in downtown Manhattan, where she guns him down in cold blood. So her career's probably ruined, most of her friends are dead, and the movie ends with the shellshocked Megan staring blankly ahead as her colleagues pick her up and escort her off the scene.]] On the plus side, Hunt is dead and is no longer a threat to her.

* PyrrhicVictory: Rookie cop Megan Turner has to play a cat and mouse game with a homicidal psychopath who is [[{{Yandere}} infatuated with her]]. The guy kills most of the people close to Megan, including [[spoiler:her best friend and the veteran homicide detective who falls in love with her]], and even rapes her, but he manages to stay out of custody each time because he's also a respected businessman and they can't offer enough proof despite Megan's testimony. She only ends up defeating him [[spoiler:by engaging in a public shoot-out in downtown Manhattan, where she guns him down in cold blood. So her career's probably ruined, most of her friends are dead, and the movie ends with the shellshocked Megan staring blankly ahead as her colleagues pick her up and escort her off the scene.]]

* NewYorkCityCops: Megan joins the NYPD, initially as a rookie street cop, but she gets an unofficial detective shield when homicide detective Nick Mann needs her help.

Megan Turner is a recently graduated rookie cop in the New York Police Department. When she stops a robbery by shooting the perpetrator, the weapon is stolen by Eugene Hunt a Wall Street banker who soon discovers that he enjoys killing people and becomes enamored with the female rookie cop. He manages to start a romance with Megan, but when she finds out that he's the killer they've been looking for, a cat and mouse game ensues as Hunt goes to increasingly violent means to take back Megan.