LOVE, FEAR AND "BLUE STEEL"

I am reliably informed that this is a bit of a historical little number too. It’s a shame that what it started – if this is indeed the case – turned out to be so solid that it was repeated ad nauseum. I mean Dexter – the popular TV series – ended up devoting an entire season to it. The film is admirable in many ways, but others did so much better with the theme that, even allowing for the fact that the film dates from the early ‘90s it loses some… Ok lots of its charm…
In the meanwhile, it is Meagan Taylor’s first night on the job. And on her very first night, she witnesses an armed robbery, intervenes and in the heat of the moment kills the robber. This is done in a justifiable manner but then a seemingly innocent – but actually quite disturbed witness to the robbery picks up the suspects gun, makes off with it, and starts committing murders all over town. With Meagan suspended pending an enquiry on use of excessive force, she is put squarely in the spotlight. But what is worse is, the murderer, Eugene (played by Andy Garcia, one of my personal favorites) who in normal life is a very personable trader on the stock-exchange has fallen for Meagan. Not only that, he also enters her life and they begin a relationship… Meagan now must piece together the pieces of the puzzle, accept that they lead to her new boyfriend, and then convince her superiors of the whole matter… The question is will she be able to do this before Eugene goes off the rails completely?
Fans of Dexter will quite see what I’m talking about. You remember that season when Debby turned out to be engaged to the “Ice Truck Killer”? Who was also Dexter’s biological brother? Yep, that’s it. The difference being that the producers had the common sense to eke the suspense out over a couple of months with a T.V. series instead of cutting it off in one movie. I mean true, we have to bear in mind that this film is a precursor more than anything else. Meagan is commendable in that she is a very believable, down to earth, normal heroine. She is not “overly” sexy; she is not