Thursday Movie Picks #428 Mystery Edition - Female Investigators (Private or Police)

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Mystery Edition - Female Investigators (Private or Police)

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This theme is quite a challenge. I think there are much more female investigator roles on TV than there are in movies. Anyway, the past year or so I've been watching a lot of older 2000s and 1990s movies that I've missed and here are 3 that had female investigators.

 

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

I had watched Lethal Weapon 4 more recently but I think I liked this better and Rene Russo who plays the internal affairs officer got a lot more to do here, while in 4 she was just the pregnant girlfriend.

 

Copycat (1995)

Criminal profiling was probably such a new thing to explore in a crime thriller back in the 90s, now it's almost a given in every crime movie and TV show. Anyway Copycat was just very 90s and it was a pretty good thriller; I like it. It also had good performances from its two female leads, Sigourney Weaver who plays a psychologist and Helen Hunt who plays the detective.

Taking Lives (2004)

I don't think this is as strong as Copycat. It has a little more cheese but still an entertaining enough crime thriller in which Angelina Jolie plays an FBI agent assisting the Canadian police to profile and catch a serial killer that takes the identity of every new victim.

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