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Information
- Year
- 2019
- Runtime
- 108 min.
- Director
- Deon Taylor
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Rating *
- 5.7
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 206
- Favs
- 11
- Dislikes
- 7
- Favs/checks
- 5.3% (1:19)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Is Black and Blue just another hero cop trapped in a corrupt police force story, having to fight the system from within? Yes, and the inciting event is also right out of Cellular (I knew it seemed familiar). Expected over-familiarity aside, I still really wanted to see what Naomie Harris would do with it. She's an army veteran and rookie cop in New Orleans, who witnesses, and captures on body-cam (so there's your modern twist), cops executing drug dealers to cover their own tracks. After that, she's forced to hide in a neighborhood that simply loathes police officers. Clichés ensue, as you can imagine, though they manage to avoid a romance between her and the "one man who believes her" (Tyrese Gibson, the most serious I've ever seen him - I like it). Truthfully, I would have watched more of Harris as the fresh-faced beat cop more and more disappointed with small-time systemic corruption that we see in the first part of the movie. The thriller plot is, per force, much more by the numbers. 3 years 5 months ago