Black and Blue
for violence and language.
| Moral Rating: | not reviewed |
| Moviemaking Quality: |
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| Primary Audience: | Adults |
| Genre: | Action Crime Thriller |
| Length: | 1 hr. 48 min. |
| Year of Release: | 2019 |
| USA Release: |
October 25, 2019 (wide—2,062 theaters) DVD: January 21, 2020 |
Inner city streets that seem like a warzone
Difficulties of being a rookie cop
Body cams worn by police
Police corruption / dirty cops
Good against evil
Living in a community where people refuse to help even the good police
Police trying to destroy incriminating evidence
Drug dealers
Criminal gangs
Doing the right thing, despite personal danger
| Featuring |
Naomie Harris … Alicia West Tyrese Gibson … Milo “Mouse” Jackson Mike Colter … Darius Frank Grillo … Terry Malone Reid Scott … Kevin Nafessa Williams … Missy Beau Knapp … See all » |
| Director |
Deon Taylor |
| Producer |
Hidden Empire Film Group Royal Viking Entertainment See all » |
| Distributor |
 Screen Gems, a division of Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment |
“The truth made her a target.”
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “BLACK AND BLUE is a fast-paced action thriller about a rookie cop (Academy Award ® nominee Naomie Harris) who inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. What’s more disturbing is that the murder has been committed by her partner and a squad of dirty police officers (Frank Grillo, Reid Scott, Beau Knapp).
Unable to get help from her former community or the police department she’s sworn to, West allies herself with a stranger named Milo (Tyrese Gibson) in an attempt to expose the murder while a local gang puts out a bounty on West’s life.She tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.”
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The title refers to the main character being both black and blue, as in, a cop. She was left feeling like she didn’t fit in in either category—old friends wanted nothing to do with her and her colleagues looked down on people she used to know, people struggling in a bad neighborhood. It made me think of individuals who are from blended families, struggling to fit in with black or white. I had just read a YA book titled Blended, and I have an adult friend who talks about not fitting in as a kid, so it was an interesting take the movie had—could she be black and be a cop. Would she have to choose one or the other?
The main character, relatively new to the force, witnesses cops kill two people, then realizing she has a body cam, one shoots her. Now she is in a rough neighborhood that even cops admit they don’t go to anymore, and she is on the run for her life. The dirty cops are out to get her, but no one in the neighborhood wants to help her.
A wonderful point of the movie is the lead character saying she sees people—not color, not cops, just people.
It’s nice to see a film promote unity. I found that such a positive message. Also, showing people who live in what is deemed an undesirable neighborhood, but they are just everyday people, struggling to get by, doing no wrong. It did show white police officers misjudging black individuals, and it was hard to see, to see a strong man, innocent of any wrong, judged and how it hurt his spirit.
There is a lot of violence in this movie and definitely bad language. It is not for kids. I really liked it though and think you can take away positives from it. The lead character wants to make a difference and wants to be able to be both—black and blue and be accepted by both.
My Ratings: Moral rating: Very Offensive / Moviemaking quality: 3½