The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)
Genre: Crime / Drama
Duration: 121 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes and Val Kilmer
IMDb score:
6,6 (82.907)
Releasedate: 11 September 2009
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans plot
"The only criminal he can't catch is himself."
A corrupt, cocaine-snorting detective is allowed to lead an investigation into the murder of five illegal immigrants from Senegal, in New Orleans. He is also at odds with a client of the prostitute with whom he is in love.
Actors and actresses
Terence McDonagh
Frankie Donnenfeld
Stevie Pruit
Heidi
Armand Benoit
Genevieve
Pat McDonagh
Captain James Brasser
Binnie Rogers
Justin
Reviews & comments
Reint
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- 151 messages
- 893 votes
Hilarious how outsiders director Werner Herzog disrupts the Hollywood film here by means of an over the top acting performance by Cage, fits of unconventional camera work in the midst of what is otherwise a fairly standard (filmed) narrative, iguanas playing tragicomic plaintive soul music [ /spoiler]singing and crocodiles wondering how humanity manages to make such a mess of life.
Better than Ferrara's "original" (which is certainly not bad either) in my opinion, because the madness here is not only in the story but also in the overall movie experience.
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Lovelyboy
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- 3573 messages
- 2647 votes
Movie that mostly failed. Cage doesn't do it all that wrong in itself and the idea is of a pretty sniffed and crazy cop, the locations are too. New Orleans lends itself perfectly to this, after all, it is known for its sweltering climate and many social problems, especially since Katrina. Everyone there suffers from a drinking or drug problem and who tries to climb out of such a valley is not understood. Plenty of ingredients you would say...
Yet the film never gets off the ground because it is downright boring and despite all the dark problems surrounding Cage and the sultry south, there is hardly any atmosphere. One of the highlights is when Cage freaks out at the pharmacy, it's one of the few moments when the film comes out of an otherwise rather dull snail's pace and turns out to have some fire in it. Furthermore, the vague moments with the reptiles are funny, which mainly allude to the extent to which Cage is in the oil, separate, funny, but otherwise ...
There aren't many reasons to see or watch the film, but despite all the above, the film still triggers a vague interest in wanting to know how far Cage's demise will go.
Seen, assessed, and on with the goat.
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Donkerwoud
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- 8414 messages
- 3821 votes
Expectations are high for a remake of 'Bad Lieutenant' (1992) by Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage. New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is also a perfect setting for a quagmire of abuse of power and corruption. But 'The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans' (2009) doesn't even come close to the original in the end, trying diligently to be a cult film rather than earning that status over the years. Where Harvey Keitel's religiously motivated sense of guilt still had a tragic edge in the original, the absurdity of Nicolas Cage's desire to do good in a bad world is farcically magnified. Just as his character mainly becomes a comic character with his addiction to painkillers, absurd hallucinations and moral flexibility. Perhaps even worse that this remake is a lot more conservative when it comes to deconstructing the masculinity of its protagonist. It's all far too slick and cliché to do justice to the probing role with which Keitel once literally and figuratively exposed himself.
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