“Out of Blue” – Not just blue [MOVIE REVIEW]
Patricia Clarkson as “Detective Mike Hoolihan” in Carol Morley’s Out of Blue. Courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films Release. “Out of Blue,” the misguided film written and directed by Carol Morely, tells a story of murder, philosophy, and physics, and none of it well. Based, one can only hope loosely, on the novel Night Train by Martin Amis, “Out of Blue” begins with a lecture on the stars and the nature of the universe as told by beautiful astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell. When next we meet Rockwell, she is face down in the observatory, blood everywhere from having been shot in the face. Soon on the scene is homicide detective Mike Hoolihan, all woman and all ambiguity. Although her colleague, young Tony Silvero, announces that there are haunting similarities to this death with a string of serial killings many years in the past, Hoolihan and her boss, Lieutenant Janet McBride, dismiss this theory and promptly investigate the two men closest to Jennifer: her African American boyfriend Duncan and her colleague, the twitty Ian Strammi. Red herrings abound, but Mike is convinced there is a connection to Jennifer’s family, the very powerful Rockwells, led by father Colonel Tom Rockwell…
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