Blue Steel is a 1990 American action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown.

Rookie NYPD officer Megan Turner shoots and kills a robber with her service revolver while he is holding up a neighborhood supermarket.

The robber’s gun falls to the ground and lands directly in front of commodities trader Eugene Hunt, one of the customers taken hostage.

Because the weapon was not found at the scene and the other witnesses are unclear about seeing a handgun, Turner is accused of killing an unarmed man and is subsequently suspended.

Meanwhile, as she attempts to clear her name with Assistant Chief Stanley Hoyt and her superiors, Turner begins dating Hunt, unaware that he has become obsessed with her.

One night at his apartment, Hunt reveals to Turner that he was at the supermarket robbery, that he took the robber's gun and that he's the person behind the recent killings.

Hunt arrives at her apartment, assaults her and shoots her best friend, Tracy Perez, before rendering her unconscious with a blow to the head and then burying the gun in a park.

Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that the original script had her nude during the final gunfight; she refused to film the scene, so it was rewritten to have her character dressed in a stolen police uniform.

The consensus states: "Blue Steel's increasingly over-the-top story beggars disbelief, but this cop drama is elevated by an appealing cast and Kathryn Bigelow's stylish direction.

"[11] Entertainment Weekly stated: "Blue Steel turns into yet another movie about Jamie Lee Curtis bravely fighting off a bogeyman.

"[12] The New York Times praised Curtis's performance, stating that she "makes Megan so appealing and real that the film holds together even when it has no reason to.