I saw "Black and Blue", starring Naomie Harris-Rampage, Moneypenny in the Daniel Craig Bond movies; Frank Grillo-The Purge:Election Year, Captain America:The Winter Soldier; Tyrese Gibson-the Fast & the Furious movies, the Transformers movies and Mike Colter-Luke Cage_tv, The Good Wife.
This is a cop thriller with a rookie cop vs bad cops. Naomie is the rookie cop that winds up in the wrong place, where a drug dealer is meeting some dirty cops. Things go from bad to worse when the bad cops-led by Frank-kill the unarmed dealers in cold blood. Naomie gets the whole transaction on her body cam, which starts a dangerous game of hide & seek with her hiding and the bad cops seeking her and her body cam. To make matters worse, Frank puts out the word that Naomie did the killing and the dead dealers uncle-a big drug dealer himself, played by Mike-puts out a bounty on Naomie's head, so just about everyone is after her; good cops, bad cops, drug dealers, drug dealers' friends, etc. Tyrese plays a local store owner that is about the only person that will even try to help her get her body cam footage to someone that can be trusted to put it to good use. There is not much new here-as far as plots go-but it is executed decently.
It's rated "R" for violence and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 48 minutes.
It's not one that I would buy on DVD-one viewing is enough-but it would be alright as a rental.
Review of Black and Blue
