Bardlerx Strictly average movie

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Ole Sandbaek Joergensen At first I found it a bit strange and disorganized, but then starting feeling that everything actually fit together and was really one big symphony music, sounds, lighting, camera angels etc.Lets just say, that Nicolas Cage plays a very strange or disillusioned detective, he is as the title tells us not a very nice man, the drugs, gambling and somewhat need of power and control seems to guide his way, mostly in a bad direction. At first I didn't get these special drug related moments, with glancing at animals and them kind of acting and showing an angle I had not discovered, it's strange but kind of a very relaxed and special part of the film.Other then that it's a rough, violent, dramatic and action packed movie, special in it's very own way. I still can't figure out exactly how I feel about it, love it or hate it, you have to decide for yourself.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Honestly, just look at Nicolas Cage's constipated expression on the movie cover, and you have seen him throughout every scene of this movie.The story in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans" is about a police lieutenant addicted to drugs trying to hustle his way through crime and life.And with a storyline such as that the movie ended up being rather unappealing and long-dragged. This was essentially a movie about Nicolas Cage running around high on drugs with a constipated expression and trying to speak through clenched teeth.People say this was Nicolas Cage's best performance since "Leaving Las Vegas". That might be so in some opinions, but the performance level has never been that high to begin with, so it wouldn't take much to top that."Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans" was, for me, a very boring and mundane movie experience. I can't claim that i had much expectations for the movie to begin with actually.

NateWatchesCoolMovies Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans is not to be compared or criticized alongside Abel Ferrera's original slam dunk gutter piece. The two films are completely different animals and share nothing but the title, and the theme of a cop gone bad. Here the cop in question is Detective Terence Mcdonough (Nicolas Cage), a coke snorting, endlessly corrupt live wire with a bad back and a worse temper. He's living the down and dirty life in New Orleans with his equally strung out, whorebag of a girlfriend (Eva Mendes) and equally corrupt partner Stevie (Val Kilmer). He's one bad move away from being kicked off the force, and one bad bet away from incurring the wrath of his menacing bookie (Brad Dourif). Even so, he wades deeper into nasty, post Katrina waters, getting involved with a volatile gangster (Xzibit) and falling further down the sinkhole of drugs and debauchery that has consumed him. Cage gives some of the best work of his last decade, a tweeked out tirade of reprehensible behaviour and manic facial contortions that scare characters and the audience alike. The cast is ripe with talent, actors like Tom Bower, Michael Shannon, Jennifer Coolidge and Fairuza Balk rounding out the roster. Herzog brings his flair for all things weird to the table here, giving the film oddball characteristics in places where it could have fallen into st right crime drama. It's colourful as well, not the drab, run down New Orleans we see in some films, but bright, crazy costumes on even crazier people. Those iguanas are a nice touch too.

bowmanblue Once upon a time the word 'Nicholas' and 'Cage' were something to set the box office alight. Nowadays, pretty much everything he does is laughed at. The only real enjoyment found from a Nic Cage film is us trying to guess just how low he will descend this time around. However, although Bad Lieutenant (2?) is never going to be an absolute classic, it does the job for what it is.First of all, it didn't entirely escape criticism. Its full title is 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans' and it's actually a remake of the Harvey Keitel film of the same name (minus the bit about New Orleans). Therefore, you naturally had all the original's fanbase claiming how sacred the original was and how this was a travesty and a simple cash-in rip-off. Well I guess all remakes are to a degree, but this one does its best to try and steer clear of borrowing too much from the source material. In fact, some of the production team even go as far as to say that it's not a remake, more a sequel that only borrows from the same principal.And then there's Cage himself. He's actually pretty good (again). Yes, he specialises in some overacting from time to time, but anyone who's seen him before should be used to this. He's propped up by a decent ing cast, including Eva Mendes and Val Kilmer, but it's generally Cage's baby and he carries the film well. As the title suggests, Cage plays the titular 'Bad Lieutenant' who, despite supposedly being a man of the law, is pretty broken and frequently bends the rules, especially when he's in need of drugs (legal and otherwise).It's a bit trippy, too. You have to concentrate on what's going on and you're going to have to be okay with some more 'arty' elements, such as singing iguanas (which I loved!). I think the more 'out there' parts of the film were trying to portray Cage's slow descent into drug-induced madness.I have to confess, I haven't seen the original, so I can't compare the two. But, seeing as I haven't watched it, I quite enjoyed it – it's a tale of a man who's on a slippery path to nowhere. So, if you like your cops 'dirty' and films a little dark and whacky, don't simply write it off as yet another of Cage's 'misfires' and give it a go.