What makes this film truly different is the unique tone introduced by director Werner Herzog.
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09/04/09
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:68
Rotten:12
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Befitting its unorthodox origins, this Bad Lieutenant benefits from Werner Herzog's typically fearless direction and a delightfully unhinged Nicolas Cage in the title role.
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: In Werner Herzog’s new film “The Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans,” Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs -- while playing fast and... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk
Director: Werner Herzog
Reviews for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Just as ridiculous as the title implies, this ill-conceived sequel to Abel Ferrara's masterpiece ("Bad Lieutenant" - 1992) picks up some grains of muscular grit under the unlikely Werner Herzog's guidance, but flails every step of the way.
10/27/09
Cage’s receding hairline and hunchback performance evokes Conrad Veidt -- a Klaus Kinski-like maniac -- because this is, in fact, a German Expressionist horror film and comedy.
11/19/09
Surely this is not meant to be taken seriously?
09/17/09
This time, it's not Nicolas Cage's fault: Werner Herzog has lost his mind.
11/20/09
No one is better at this kind of performance than Nicolas Cage. He's a fearless actor. He doesn't care if you think he goes over the top. If a film calls for it, he will crawl to the top hand over hand with bleeding fingernails.
11/19/09
Top CriticIf there’s a sure thing in movies, it’s that if you cast Nicolas Cage in a role in which he goes crazy, he’ll rise to the occasion and keep on rising until he seems even loonier than his character.
11/16/09
It's perhaps 2/3 of a good movie and 1/3 of material that feels out of place or is derivative.
11/18/09
The film is an exasperating bore.
11/20/09
Do fish have dreams? Do they dream of ominous iguanas, perhaps? Or maybe the disembodied breakdancing souls of freshly capped gangsters? More to the point, will Nicolas Cage ever make another movie that makes sense?
12/01/09
There can only ever be one Bad Lieutenant: Harvey Keitel.
11/20/09
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans -- why Port of Call? what does that mean? -- is no masterpiece, but it is undoubtedly the work of a master.
11/19/09
Top CriticThe movie could have ended without the last few scenes and been far more tense and suspenseful. As it stands now, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans plays as if Schindler's List ended with an energetic musical performance by The Muppets.
11/25/09
A perfect, perfect prank.
11/19/09
Your reaction to the whole thing probably depends on your general feelings about Cage: Fans will relish his unique brand of scenery-chewing; non-fans are likely to be irritated.
11/18/09
Like a jumpy, coke-fueled Pied Piper, Cage takes viewers to the very precipice of depraved self-abasement, while preserving just enough self-conscious humor to keep from tumbling in.
11/20/09
No film by Herzog has ever been so defiantly mainstream - and yet this remains one of the director's craziest, most outlandish affairs. Finding a way out the other side of that contradiction is half the fun for the incredulous viewer
10/12/09
Sensationally entertaining, darkly comedic, witty and refreshingly bizarre. A guilty pleasure. Nicolas Cage is in top form.
11/21/09
Cold-blooded reptiles are lurking everywhere in the slick new noir Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, with snakes, iguanas, gators and especially Nicolas Cage at their slithering and cynical best.
11/19/09
Top CriticNicolas Cage is so gleefully over-the-top as the troubled cop of the title that you will either be repulsed or fascinated by his performance and, since it lives or dies by it, the movie itself.
11/29/09
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