VividSimon Simply Perfect
Listonixio Fresh and Exciting
Acensbart Excellent but underrated film
Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
Michael Ledo Imagine Dirty Harry with a bad coke habit, played by Nicolas Cage in New Orleans. Cage gives us an outstanding performance as someone who goes though those violent coke induced mood swings. The iguana which appears in the movie from time to time is symbolic of the metaphor "monkey on the back." Cage is investigating a brutal family execution and interweaves his personal failings into the process. His girlfriend is a prostitute who he protects and supplies drugs. He has a gambling habit, and owes money (bets too much on LSU) and of course steals from the evidence locker.He also shakes down people for information, even grandmothers. Makes Dirty Harry look like a sissy. Lots of drug use, bad language, sexual situations, and some violence.Good story. Plot fairly simple to follow. The movie, at time, has the feel of a dark comedy.
elshikh4 Name one thing that forces you to continue watching this ? The answer is : the desire of seeing "how low can it go ?!"Don't you ever believe the yak about it as realistic, character study, social commentary, and sophisticated arty piece of cinema. It's baloney; and I mean this movie along with that talk !Someone even said that this is a wonderful black comedy. Baby, this movie isn't, your title is !In fact, this movie could be nothing but a comedy gone wrong. Though in terms of comedy, and long titles, The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call - New Orleans (2009) reminded me of Juiskers II : The Sequel with No Prequel (2006), and Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000). Because this may be a parody of its original. However, comedy without timing isn't comedy !In a June 2008 interview with The Guardian, Abel Ferrara, who directed and co-wrote the original Bad Lieutenant, said that finding out his movie was being remade was "a horrible feeling", "like when you get robbed". He also wondered how Nicolas Cage "can even have the nerve to play Harvey Keitel", and called screenwriter William M. Finkelstein an idiot. Putting in mind how the remake turned out to be, I couldn't agree more !Fairly, this is a movie that tried so seriously to be something bigger than its original, and itself, but didn't have the abilities, hence ended up as a really bad joke. Bad Lieutenant, bad movie, and - with tons of pointless remakes lately - bad Hollywood.
Alexander Smirnoff Nicolas Cage - an Oscar winning actor in Werner Herzog's movie "Bad Lieutenant" which has nothing to do with Harvey Keitel's 1992 film, goes absolute crazy in some scenes, but not as furious as he can. These limitations can be for good, to keep movie's tone in check. And there are no reasons to break drama genre and go bizarre into even more comedic and crazier tone. Because comedy is a pretty usual thing in this flick. Cage's character Terence McDonagh is a drug addict, very reactionary, he is frightening at times, because of what he is capable of, but inside he is a good , selfish person, who just seeks a way out. He has this back problem, taking pills, which aren't helping, he basically takes his own medicine ,using cocaine mostly with his prostitute girlfriend Frankie (Eva Mendes). After a group homicide of several immigrants Detective McDonagh is assigned to investigate. This and his personal problems lead this character into an interesting ending. Watching the movie you can't dislike Terence, the direction is really effective to make us care about, at first look, a scum like McDonagh. The plot goes many unexpected ways. Thanks to screenwriter William M. Finkelstein, who definitely wrote an engaging script.After loosing the main witness for immigrant's case, McDonagh goes rogue, uniting with the drug-boss, to make some quick money in order to pay debts and save his girlfriend from what she got herself into. That lead to a group of absolutely unexpected events that are not to be estimated anyhow. Nic Cage's character is that chemical element, provoking those events as he becomes a completely different person throughout the film.The humor in this film is one special part that I enjoyed the most. Not only McDonagh is a guy who threatens helpless old people, but does it with style, and with script's emotional help by making those old people not only victims but villains in that scene, which is it absolutely funny, because emotionally you expect and want McDonagh to do so. There no much action in this film, at some point it becomes a little fantasy of a drug addict. Moments of him, seeing dancing sole and stuff like that makes this movie even more bizarre, but Herzog doesn't overuse scenes like that, so to make this movie a good combination of drama, comedy and addict's fantasy.
alex-kirkby Big actors like Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Will Smith, Nicolas Cage and many others all have there good films, there OK films and there are bad films. Bad Lieutenant is one of Nicolas Cages OK films. I have never seen the original film and I only watched this only because Nicolas Cage was in it. The film is about a police lieutenant who has bad back pain and the medication from the doctor is not helping so he starts taking drugs, having sex with young fit girls on the street and mixing with the wrong kind of people. The film had its ups and downs, rocky storyline and there were parts in the film i didn't think were needed like the odd 5 minutes of stupid music and funny camera angles well staring at a lizard or a snake and even a stupid little scene after someone got killed and there soul is brake dancing right next to it's body, why did they put that in what was the point of adding this in why did they put this in, it was like they were trying to put step up 2 the streets and Bad Lieutenant together I couldn't understand why they added this. Apart from that the film was OK, the action is good, so is the acting and the story is rocky and is really slow at times. The film also stars the very hot Eva Mendes and the famous ex Batman actor Val Kilmer. I gave the film a 7/10 it was OK but could if been a lot better.
