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Dark Blue (2002) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Dark Blue (2002) a score of 2.6667 out of 4

based on (215) reviews

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Excellent

(16)

Very Good

(135)

Good

(59)

Fair

(4)

Poor

(1)

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Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)

Shelton tackles every New York cop-film cliche here and gives them a bracing West Coast spin, capturing L.A. with the same breathless rapture others have brought to New York....read the complete Dark Blue (2002) review at Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Another harrowingly cynical dirty-cop movie in the recent tradition of "Training Day" and "Narc." Yet it's so much more complex, engrossing and satisfying than those films that the comparison is not entirely fair....read the complete Dark Blue (2002) review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Toronto Star (Peter Howell)

A flawed and melodramatic affair with echoes of Training Day and L.A. Confidential that nevertheless has the whiff of truth....read the complete Dark Blue (2002) review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)

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San Francisco Examiner (Joe Leydon)

So many things go wrong -- stunningly, breathtakingly wrong -- throughout so much of Dark Blue that the movie is, somewhat like a spectacular auto wreck, perversely fascinating....read the complete Dark Blue (2002) review at San Francisco Examiner (Joe Leydon)

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Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)

While much of the action rings true in Dark Blue , and the events leading up to the riots make for a tense, eerie framework, the movie heads in a disastrous direction ......read the complete Dark Blue (2002) review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)

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