Review – Dark Blue

If this worked in L.A. Confidential, it’s bound to work here, right? Heck, they even got James Elroy to write the story. Unfortunately, the brutal cop violence and racism that worked to good dramatic effect in 1950’s Los Angeles waver between uninteresting and downright offensive within the context of the Rodney King riots. The plot is a standard Elroy yarn about corrupt cops struggling with their ambitions, failed relationships and general morality. The cast isn’t the end of the world. But what really kills the story – aside from the conscious and unconscious bigotry – is the script. Honestly, this production features some of the most poorly-developed characters spouting some of the most dreadful dialogue I’ve ever heard. See if desperate