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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
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Reviews Counted:76
Fresh:64
Rotten:12
Average Rating:7.1/10
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.
Theatrical Release:Nov 20, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $687,631
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
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Reviews for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
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
Nicolas 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
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
Like the late Klaus Kinski, who so often played crazies in Herzog's earlier movies, Cage is in your face all the way. Laughing maniacally, lying with no sign of a conscience, he pushes the character's frequent tantrums beyond over-the-top.
11/25/09
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans is a magnificent mess of the sort only Herzog can get away with making.
11/25/09
Frankly, the story isn't remotely as interesting as Cage. Nothing is.
11/24/09
Top CriticCage can be loopy, weird and at the same time sympathetic -- crucial to our response to this character -- and Herzog draws one of his better performances here.
11/24/09
A one-of-a-kind experience that boasts a twice-in-a-lifetime performance from Nicolas Cage.
11/24/09
Top CriticDespite his strangely receding hairline, bug-eyed demeanor and hunchback stance, Cage somehow avoids making this police lieutenant a caricature.
11/24/09
Top CriticThe iguanas are like the frogs at the end of Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, only better.
11/24/09
Nicolas Cage, a born Hollywood skin-walker, somehow hints at a spiritual dimension to all this lunatic mayhem.
11/24/09
Herzog, who seems to be drawing on the audience’s affection for him as an inspired madman, may not care to tell a story straight anymore.
11/23/09
Top CriticSensationally entertaining, darkly comedic, witty and refreshingly bizarre. A guilty pleasure. Nicolas Cage is in top form.
11/21/09
We have to go all the way back to Junior Brown, the psychopathic strip club owner in Kiss of Death (1994), to find a meatier heavy in Cage's filmography.
11/21/09
Cage acts, at times, as though his head is about to explode. And not the character's head; it's Cage himself who seems in danger of self-immolation.
11/20/09
(The film) has a hard time settling on such simple things as characters' motivations, needs and accents (Cage's changes inexplicably midway through).
11/20/09
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11/20/09
The new film has much in common with some of Herzog's crazed past masterworks like Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
11/20/09
Like the water snake that slithers by during the opening credits or the baby crocodile from whose point of view we observe one roadside scene, this movie is a freaky little swamp thing.
11/20/09
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