Hysterical and melodramatic, the crooked-cop drama Dark Blue nevertheless strikes a nerve due to its incendiary backdrop: the 1992 trial of the police officers who were caught on tape beating Rodney King. A perfectly rumpled Kurt Russell stars as a corrupt Los
Angeles detective who slowly uncovers his conscience. Like Sept. 11, 2001, did in Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, the trial hovers over this main narrative, lending a poignant resonance to everything that we see.
