Black and Blue

Very nice surprise!! Simple and straightforward, but authentic, uncomfortable, harsh and at the same time very entertaining. The film is more or less about police corruption and drug dealers going after one honest rookie, Naomie Harris, who is alone against everyone. Frank Grillo as the bad guy is awesome, the shootouts are raw and the squalor of New Orleans is captured believably. A movie full of bad guys. 7.5/10. (05/01/2020)

Decent craftsmanship with an extremely eager and excellent performance from Naomie Harris, who proves that she can not only be a nice talisman for the new Bond films, but can reliably handle a full-blooded lead role in a gritty cop action flick that occasionally peeks like Ayer, occasionally thunders like Johannson from Sicario, but qualitatively is neither. The sometimes stilted script is saved by the ghetto feel of New Orleans and surprisingly fierce action sequences, a small plus for the straightforwardly sketched racial issues and disproportionate police behaviour, a very topical issue indeed. (11/06/2020)

Excellent thriller d’action qui m’a coupé le souffle par moments, car j’avais terriblement peur qu’il arrive quelque chose à ma chère Naomie Harris. Je ne savais pas à quoi m’attendre, je n’étais pas au courant du synopsis, et ma satisfaction n’en a été que plus grande. Je pourrais faire les fines bouches et me plaindre de petits défauts çà et là, mais je préfère m’abstenir étant donné que ce film d’action m’a procuré un moment de divertissement de qualité. (29/05/2021)