
Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner (Nelson) learns that his father has been killed. With little help from the police, Billy will take matters into his own hands and go up against a ruthless local mob boss in a desperate search to find the killer.... (Full plot summary below)
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Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner (Nelson) learns that his father has been killed. With little help from the police, Billy will take matters into his own hands and go up against a ruthless local mob boss in a desperate search to find the killer.
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| Total FilmJamie GrahamIsabella Rossellini’s singer Dorothy is a heart-rending open wound, Dennis Hopper’s Frank Booth one of cinema’s great nutjobs, and Lynch’s control a thing of nightmarish beauty. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellBlue Velvet is David Lynch in peak form, and represents (to date) his most accomplished motion picture. It is a work of fascinating scope and power that rivals any of the most subversive films to reach the screens during the '80s. |
| Village VoiceGuy MaddinThe last real earthquake to hit cinema was David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" -- I'm sure directors throughout the film world felt the earth move beneath their feet and couldn't sleep the night of their first encounter with it back in 1986. (Review of 20th Anniversary Re-Release) |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelHopper creates a flabbergasting portrait of unrepentent, irredeemable evil. |
| L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasWhat dazzles still about David Lynch's Blue Velvet is its total authority: Not a single false gesture. No shock delivered solely for its own sake. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenIt's mostly fascinating, though the unconverted may be in for a rough two hours. |
| San Francisco ChronicleGerald NachmanDoesn't progress or deepen, it just gets weirder, and to no good end. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittA bad script. Bad casting. What`s left? How about the guilty party you can spot within minutes? Add a complete lack of suspense to that list and it ensures that Blue City will be on this critic`s list of the year`s worst movies. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSo strong, so shocking and yet so audacious that people walk out shaking their heads; they don't know quite what to make of it. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordBlue City has exactly one thing to recommend it: Ry Cooder’s typically funky, steely, hard-edged score. Overall, it’s such a flabbergasting turkey--misfiring in every conceivable direction--that it may actually improve if you watch it with your eyes shut. |