OUT OF BLUE attempts to be a dark detective story full of Deep Thoughts and Symbolism that culminates in the central Dark, Defective Detective "finding herself" and the reasons behind her Messed up Self through the Journey of Self-Discovery that her investigation of a murder devolves into. And if you found that sentence ponderous and difficult to read, then that's probably the reaction you'll have to OUT OF BLUE.
Ultimately, this movie is poorly made and heavy-handed and overreaches itself far beyond the director's ability to craft such supposedly cerebral fare. Clumsy portrayals are not deep, they're just a big mess. There are so many superficial execution flaws in individual scenes they actually tend to obfuscate how bad the overall plot line really is.
As an example, in literally the very first scene of the movie, we have a stargazing event at a tiny observatory with a handful of people standing around looking through small, individual telescopes while an accomplished scientist gives a talk. Bizarrely, the entire event area is literally festooned with exceptionally blinding floodlights that would render any attempt to look at stars entirely moot and rendering the entire scene ridiculous.
This kind of almost silly sloppiness characterizes the entire picture. When you get this sort of thing at the very beginning of a movie, at least as far as I'm concerned, it sets a very negative tone at the onset that leaves you searching to see what other ridiculous mistakes are made instead of enjoying the movie.
Watch it if you will, but I wouldn't recommend it. If you do plan to watch it, study up on Schrödinger's Cat and the notion of observational interference ahead of time so you can understand how poorly those concepts are represented within the movie.
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