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Movie Review

Dark Blue

Dark Blue

Dark Blue is a tough, but somewhat routine, corrupt-cop morality tale that generates a good deal of power by being set in the five-day period in 1992 leading up to the riots that tore apart South Central Los Angeles in the wake of the verdict that acquitted the policemen who beat Rodney King. Throughout the film are carefully placed TV sets broadcasting the actual footage of that timeKing ... ...

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