“I appreciate you.”

From Black and Blue.

Police officer Alicia West (Naomie Harris) has returned to New Orleans after ten years away in the Army to be the change in her former city.  While she knows the streets, her long absence has led to her being out of touch with the people (including Nafessa Williams) and places that she used to know.  However, she is handling being a rookie well from her bravery to always remembering her body camera to connecting with her partner, Kevin (Reid Scott).  When Kevin is tapped to pull a double, Alicia volunteers to take his place so he doesn’t miss date night and she is assigned to work overnight with Officer Brown (James Moses Black) who is displeased to be working with a rookie.  When Brown gets a call on his phone, he drives them to an abandoned building where he says he needs to meet with an informant.  Brown tells Alicia to stay in the car, but when she hears gunshots inside, she turns on her body cam and goes to help Brown.  Inside she witnesses Brown, officer Malone (Frank Grillo), and his partner (Beau Knapp) murder an unarmed gang member.   Once they notice her, the dirty cops turn their guns on her to keep her or the body camera from escaping.  The injured Alicia manages to escape, but with three dirty cops close behind her and a bullet wound slowing her down, her only option is to seek help from an old friend, Milo (Tyrese Gibson) who still lives in the neighborhood.  Desperate to stop Alicia from logging the footage into evidence, Malone tells the uncle of the man he murdered, a gang leader named Darius (Mike Colter), that Officer West is responsible for his nephew’s murder.  Darius places a bounty on Alicia’s head so she’s not safe from an unknown number of dirty cops or the people of the community, but she refuses to give up until she can get the camera back to the station and do the right thing.

This suspenseful action movie offers a look into race and police relations that is careful to walk the line between both sides.  Harris leads with her character’s inspiring determination in a setting that is gritty, but surprising.  Black and Blue is a worth-the-watch thriller that’ll keep audiences on the edge of their seat to the very end.

| Rated: R | Running Time: 109 minutes |Genre: action/thriller |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 4* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 4 of 10

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