A rookie police officer in New Orleans has to balance her identity as a black woman with her role as a police officer when she witnesses other police officers committing murder.
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Black female rookie cop is wounded while witnessing a killing performed by corrupt cops in the police force. Singularly, she escapes from being killed while exposing all the corruption in the process with the help of an unlikely helper. Everyone in the story is corrupted including her partner.
This is familiar action thriller territory done before, most notably in the acclaimed Anthony Fuqua’s TRAINING DAY.
BLACK AND BLUE is the kind of film critics, when reading of the plot shudder with an ‘ugh’ for having to go see the film and then review this re-cycled story. The film has…
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