Part of a movie review

Jamie Lee Curtis is a cop; Ron Silver is the bad guy.

I saw the last 30 minutes of this movie. Jamie, fit and fulsome, is after Ron, bearded and mysterious. She has many shots at him. I believed the film was set in Los Angeles. There’s a park where Ron is looking for buried goods. Jamie comes across him, bullets fly and Ron is hit, somewhat. The marksmanship in this movie is atrocious! Buildings look like parts of business neighborhoods south of the LA Civic Center. They appear the sort that Superman can step over rather than leap at a single bound.

I can’t remember all the contorted coincidences which ended in shoot-outs. Ron is wounded a few times but they are scratches, no matter how much blood flows onto his clothes. Jamie, herself, is wounded but at last escapes a hospital to hunt Ron down for the final shoot-out.  I hate it when bad guys are predictable, and always show up when the police are present.

Toward the end is the big shootout. Having shot ten times Jamie is forced to reload her revolver holding six. Ron gets more shots without reloading his revolver. Nobody has a Nine. The producers did not want members of the audience getting shot.

Jamie wounds Ron who tried to hijack a car. He somehow leaves and runs. Nobody in the City of Angeles runs. Jamie get in the car and runs Ron over. He’s all right and is fighting fit, but remains too close. Point blank Jamie puts three in his center mass.

As the end credits rolled, I thought it might be good that the National Guard and Marines are now in Los Angeles. They can give lessons in marksmanship and sharpshooter awards to police going through tougher shooting programs. Farther into the credits I read that Blue Steel was set in New York City where no bad guy dies until the fat woman sings.