1999 · action · comedy · crime
Blue Streak
Directed by Les Mayfield1h 33m1999
Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an LAPD detective.
Our read: Blue Streak (1999) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- twisty
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