Movie Reviews: Resurrecting the Champ and Blue Steel

 I got the chance to watch a few movies that I had not yet seen the past few nights. 

We dropped cable awhile back but we have about every streaming service there is. That's not entirely accurate but we have a lot. 

Tubi is one that I have discovered recently. It has a bunch of movies and TV shows. The movies are mostly ones I had never heard of before. There are a few in there that I know and love. But I had never heard Blue Steel before seeing it. I had stumbled across Resurrecting the Champ before but never watched it. 

Resurrecting The Champ hits home with me. It's about a struggling sports journalist who is looking for his big break. And he runs into a former boxer who most people who know him thought was dead. 

Josh Hartnett plays the role of the writer and he's basically undercover trying to learn more about the boxer, who is played by Samuel L. Jackson. 

Hartnett is also battling through a struggling marriage and doesn't have the best relationship with his young son. 

The ending of the movie is surprising and Hartnett's big story leads him to triumph, opportunities within his profession and a sad conclusion. 

Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie a 60 percent rating. I think it was a little better than that. I am a sports writer too so it was a great look into the field of study I went into. 

Blue Steel is an action crime drama starring Jamie Lee Curtis as a rookie cop who must engage in a cat-and-mouse game with a pistol-wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.

In one of the first few scenes, Curtis finds herself in the middle of a robbery at a grocery store where she shoots the suspect and saves a bunch of hostages. One of the hostages though flees the scene with the gun of the suspect. 

I enjoyed the movie, but there are some holes that don't get filled. At least from what I can tell. The man who gets away, played by Ron Silver, suddenly becomes a ragic lunatic because he came into contact with a gun for the first time? 

And Silver's character talks to himself in a few scenes like he is possessed. But I never really understood what that was about. 

Curtis and Silver end up in a relationship as Silver becomes obsessed with her. He kills innocent people along the way and eventually works his way to people Megan Turner, played by Curtis, cares about. 

Rotten Tomatoes gave this one a rating of 75 percent. I would say that's about right, maybe a little lower on my end. Good movie. Not great. But I usually enjoy Jamie Lee Curtis movies.