Black and Blue

The truth made her a target.

A junior cop inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realising that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.

110 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Violence).
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller.

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Always safer to let the woman go first...

Credits

Cast	Naomie Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Mike Colter, Frank Grillo, Reid Scott, Nafessa Williams
Director	Deon Taylor
Screenplay	Peter A. Dowling
Music	Geoff Zanelli
Cinematography	Dante Spinotti
Editing	Peck Prior
Made in	2019
Produced by	Hidden Empire Film Group, Royal Viking Entertainment, Screen Gems

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama, thriller
Language	None (sic)
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	None (sic)
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
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USA MPAA rating

R: Restricted	Rated R for violence and language
Runtime	108
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

British Board of Film Classification rating

15: Suitable for 15 years and older	Violence, Language
Runtime	108
British version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 15 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Metacritic.com 22 critics	11
Rottentomatoes critics 80 critics	11
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Black and Blue is elevated by Naomie Harris’ central performance, even if the end result suffers from a simplistic treatment of topical themes.	10
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	11
CommonSenseMedia Tara McNamara Strong, ethical heroine elevates violent bad-cop actioner.	15
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 32 users	8
Rottentomatoes users 4607 users	18
Rottentomatoes popcornmeter Popcornmeter	19
IMDB 1554 Netizens	11
The Movie DB Community	10
Average .. 62%	12