{"id":33234,"date":"2023-07-07T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33234"},"modified":"2023-07-07T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:49:09","slug":"black-and-blue-2019-starring-naomie-harris-tyrese-gibson-frank-grillo-mike-colter-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33234","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Black and Blue&#8221; (2019) starring Naomie Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Frank Grillo &#038; Mike Colter \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z070723zview_blackandblue.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Black and Blue <\/strong><\/em>(2019)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Deon Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Peter A. Dowling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Naomie Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Frank Grillo, Mike Colter <\/strong>and <strong>James Moses Black<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The truth made her a target.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a stint in the Army, Alicia West (Harris) has returned to her tough New Orleans neighborhood as a police officer.\u00a0 Alicia quickly learns that although she grew up there and is black, everyone now sees her as &#8220;blue&#8221;.\u00a0 This is driven home from her interactions with people she grew up with &#8212; they distrust the police and she&#8217;s now one of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Alicia agrees to pick up an extra shift, she paired with a veteran cop.\u00a0 They take a couple of calls and then he tells her to wait in the car while he enters a building.\u00a0 When Alicia hears a gunshot, she leaves the car and heads to help her partner.\u00a0 She&#8217;s surprised to see him with some undercover cops as they murder a drug dealer.\u00a0 When Alicia is seen, one of the cops shoots her.\u00a0 Wounded and on the run, Alicia becomes the target of cops and the gangbangers when word is put out that she executed the drug dealers!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Naomie Harris is excellent as the rookie cop, wounded and alone with no one to trust and everyone wanting her dead.\u00a0 Tyrese Gibson and Frank Grillo are always welcome additions to any cast.\u00a0 The real surprise for me is Mike Colter. Colter plays a huge, scary drug lord determined to avenge the murder of his nephew.\u00a0 He owns every scene he&#8217;s in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Black and Blue <\/strong><\/em>(2019) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z070723zview_blackandblue2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black and Blue (2019) Director: Deon Taylor Screenplay: Peter A. 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