The work of a warped wizard.
Comment
04/09/08
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
74 %
Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 26 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Synopsis: Harvey Keitel stars as a nameless New York cop, hopelessy addicted to drugs, gambling, and sex, in this intense, hallucinatory portrait of sin and redemption by Abel Ferrara. The film follows the lieutenant as he makes his way to various crime scenes, concerned only with taking bets from his... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Acciario, Brian McElroy, Peggy Formley, Stella Keitel
Director: Abel Ferrara
Reviews
Top Critic
Keitel is onscreen for pretty much the entire movie and clearly relishes the opportunity of playing someone not so much teetering on the abyss as leaping off with a grand piano manacled to each ankle.
04/09/08
Top Critic
Quite possibly Ferrara's finest hour, with an almost unbearably sincere performance from Keitel.
04/09/08
Top Critic
Ferrara allows his star to dictate the pace, and is rewarded with a performance of extraordinary, terrifying honesty.
01/26/06
Top Critic
Top Critic
Bad Lieutenant is finally a pulp parable of sin, addiction, and redemption, a movie that, like its subversive hero, revels in the pleasure -- and danger -- of going too far.
04/09/08
Abel Ferrara's uncompromising Bad Lieutenant is a harrowing journey with a corrupt N.Y. cop sinking into the lower depths.
04/09/08
Top Critic
Though hardly a film for all sensibilities, Bad Lieutenant has the courage of its own convictions, and follows them to the bitter end.
04/09/08
Top Critic
There's an undeniable formal elegance in the way Ferrara, who coauthored the script with Zoe Lund, frames and holds certain shots, and Keitel certainly gives his all.
04/09/08
Scabrously powerful, the film dives into the addictive psyche, mixing Ferrara's fave elements: sex, drugs, and mayhem. Yet like his other films, it's a morality play about reclaimed sinners desperate for salvation in a world devoid of love and decency.
07/17/05
When Abel Ferrara calls something bad, better believe it: he means business.
05/20/03
Top CriticNews
Herzog's Bad Lieutenant Grows
posted by July 08, 2008
Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker and Xzibit have...
posted by July 08, 2008
Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker and Xzibit have...
Eva Mendes in Negotiations for Bad Lieutenant
posted by June 16, 2008
Eva Mendes is in talks to star opposite Nicolas Cage in Werner Herzog's remake/not-a-remake of Bad Lieutenant....
posted by June 16, 2008
Eva Mendes is in talks to star opposite Nicolas Cage in Werner Herzog's remake/not-a-remake of Bad Lieutenant....
Herzog Shrugs Off Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant Complaints
posted by June 05, 2008
Werner Herzog has heard that Abel Ferrara is upset about his planned Bad Lieutenant remake, but he isn't concerned -- in...
posted by June 05, 2008
Werner Herzog has heard that Abel Ferrara is upset about his planned Bad Lieutenant remake, but he isn't concerned -- in...
Nicolas Cage to Play Bad Lieutenant
posted by Orlando Parfitt May 15, 2008
Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog are teaming up for a re-make of Abel Ferrera's violent 1992 classic Bad Lieutenant, it...
posted by Orlando Parfitt May 15, 2008
Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog are teaming up for a re-make of Abel Ferrera's violent 1992 classic Bad Lieutenant, it...
Around the Network
• Bad Lieutenant at Rotten Tomatoes
IGN RSS Feeds