WHAT’S IT ABOUT
A rookie policewoman in New Orleans inadvertently captures the shooting death of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the only person from the community who’s willing to help her. Now, she finds herself on the run from both the vengeful criminals and the lawmen who desperately want to destroy the incriminating footage.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
Black and Blue is more than a movie, it’s basically an autobiographical story of nearly every Black person in America. Honestly, I’m surprised it made it to the theaters. I know it had to be a real challenge to get something so realistic in the eyes of Black people green-lit, so for what’s worth, thank you. This movie hits a raw nerve five-minutes in and continues to tell the uncensored story of how corrupt our police are for us non-White Americans. In Black and Blue, a rookie named Alicia West records her fellow officers murder some people via her body cam. This creates a problem for the crooked cops and puts West’s life in jeopardy. On the run and out of options, she has to put her trust in the people that think she turned her back on. One by one the level of corruption within the department is discovered, and Officer West is forced to seek the forced assistance of a store employee named Milo. Together they run, hide, and fight every obstacle put before them. This is a formula that has been done before but never at this level, and nothing in recent years would have touched a subject like this given our current “Black’s murdered by cops” position. Not everyone will care for this film because it exposes a seemingly glorifies a wrong that has never stopped in this country, and then some are sick of seeing/hearing about the plight of Black people and corrupt law enforcement. But Black and Blue is a quality well-acted film with a story that speaks to so many Americans right now. I had the pleasure of seeing this movie in a sold-out theater with a very mixed crowd, and as far as I know, no one left disappointed. In the end, it’s still a Hollywood production and things can only go one way in an American film that’s made to satisfy its core audience – African Americans. It’s something that only a Black person can fully appreciate as it fulfills a wish every person of color has demanded from our so-called justice system as long as it has existed. It’s time to make the change and stop talking about it.
OUR RATING – A MORE BLACK THAN BLUE 9.5
Media
- Genre – Crime Drama
- Street date
- Digital – December 31st 2019
- DVD/Blu-Ray – January 21st 2020
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit), French: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish, French
Extras
- Line of Fire
- Be The Change in the Big Easy
- Deleted Scenes