Slightly disturbing, slightly more boring.
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06/22/05
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:27
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Acciario, Brian McElroy, Peggy Formley
Director: Abel Ferrara
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Reviews for Bad Lieutenant
Bad Lieutenant is surface stuff all the way, with Kietel's no-holds-barred performance being the only element of worth. It is quite an acting turn but hardly enough to save the picture.
01/01/00
No review available.
07/29/05
The only truth about this film was the sleaze.
08/14/02
It doesn't take five minutes for us to understand the depth of his immorality. But the movie proceeds to outline his badness.
01/01/00
Top CriticMembers of the gutter-al elite will be the sole survivors.
04/09/08
As good as the lead actor is, he's not enough to save this picture from landing on the scrap-heap of uninspired, derivative, and grotesquely distasteful character studies.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
12/29/06
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12/24/02
The work of a warped wizard.
04/09/08
Ferrara allows his star to dictate the pace, and is rewarded with a performance of extraordinary, terrifying honesty.
01/26/06
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
It's intense and graphic. And it also rings true.
01/01/00
Keitel's performance is perhaps the needed counterpoint to Christopher Walken's ice-cold overlord in Ferrara's visionary crime opus King of New York
05/13/09
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
The highlight of Ferrara's career--sublime.
07/27/07
No review available.
02/22/04
Abel Ferrara [is] one of the most interesting directors in modern American cinema.
10/19/01
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
This punishing film from director Abel Ferrara is something else altogether -- an illuminating, excoriating descent into the cesspool of sin, self-loathing and defilement. This is not an easy film to watch.
01/01/00
Top CriticLatest News for Bad Lieutenant
May 27, 2009:
Cage Unleashes Crazy In Bad Lieutenant Trailer
Okay, for everyone lamenting Nicolas Cage's decade-long slide into talent-wasting, hairpiece-abusing blockbuster mediocrity -- this one's for you. Below is the production... More...
October 03, 2008:
Further Reading: Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker in Abel Ferrara's Mary
As the NFT in London prepares a Juliette Binoche season, Kim looks at Abel Ferrara's Mary which also stars Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker. More...
July 08, 2008:
Herzog's Bad Lieutenant Grows 
Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker and Xzibit have joined Nicolas Cage in the cast of Werner Herzog's "update" of Bad... More...
June 16, 2008:
Eva Mendes in Negotiations for Bad Lieutenant
Eva Mendes is in talks to star opposite Nicolas Cage in Werner Herzog's remake/not-a-remake of Bad Lieutenant. More...
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