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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 135
Fresh: 118 | Rotten: 17

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.

Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 4

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.

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Abel Ferrara's cult crime drama Bad Lieutenant is given a sister film with this Werner Herzog-helmed production that takes its inspiration from the original, but focuses on new characters and plotlines. Nicolas Cage steps into Harvey Keitel's mold of a corrupt and drug-addled police officer, with the scummy setting moving from New York City to New Orleans. Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, and Xzibit co-star in the Nu Image/Millennium Films picture. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

R, 2 hr. 1 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Directed By: Werner Herzog

Written By: William M. Finkelstein

In Theaters: Nov 20, 2009 Wide

On DVD: Apr 6, 2010

Box Office:$1.6M

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Is redemption possible for this bad lieutenant? At one point, he orders that a dead man be shot again because "his soul is still dancing." If you find God in that line, then welcome to your movie heaven.

February 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Rolling Stone

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Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

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Cage, who usually goes gonzo with gusto, underplays this monster. That spoils the fun.

December 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel

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Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

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Nicolas Cage is out of his mind in The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call -- New Orleans. And it's wonderful to see.

December 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Tom Long

Detroit News

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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.

November 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic

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Bill Goodykoontz

Arizona Republic

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Frankly, the story isn't remotely as interesting as Cage. Nothing is.

November 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Globe

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Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

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A one-of-a-kind experience that boasts a twice-in-a-lifetime performance from Nicolas Cage.

November 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

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Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

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If Herzog had chosen realism over surrealism, this film would have been predictable and unentertaining. As it is, I found it oddly captivating. This is one weird movie.

July 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

[Cage is] hilarious, scary, contorted, mournful, mean and weirdly, monstrously lovable -- the perfect actor to work with one of the world's most stubborn, bold, idiosyncratic filmmakers.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com

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Dave White

Movies.com

Nicolas Cage's deliriously unhinged portrayal of the film's titular bent cop ranks right up there with his most memorably off-kilter performances.

February 22, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Talk

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Jason Best

Movie Talk Source: Movie Talk

Despite the snake slither-swimming through the bars of a flooded cellblock, the injured alligator and the iguanas that seem to be crooning Johnny Adams' 'Release Me,' star Nicolas Cage may be the most reptilian presence here...

December 30, 2010 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Perhaps it took a director as crazy as Werner Herzog to control (and ultimately unleash) the madness that exists within Cage ... they craft a character not unlike a modern day Daniel Plainview.

October 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Quickflix

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Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Bad Lieutenant, Bad!

September 28, 2010 Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review

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Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

3BlackChicks Review

Any reservations that this is a straight forward remake of Abel Ferrara's hardcore Catholic redemption drama should be left on the wayside, for this Bad Lieutenant is a different monster all together.

July 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Matt's Movie Reviews

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Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

Cage's Lieutenant McDonagh is a parody of not just the actor's own performances in recent years, but a gaudy exaggeration of every bad-cop clich� out there.

July 4, 2010 Full Review Source: DCist

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Ian Buckwalter

DCist

This will be remembered as one of Cage's finest performances. Maybe he has just needed the right director and in eccentric German genius Werner Herzog he's found him.

May 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Sun Online

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Alex Zane

Sun Online

I'd rather rot in a New Orleans jail than watch it again. And yet its epiphanies are outrageously sharp, it is beautifully shot by cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger and the ending is a joy.

May 27, 2010 Full Review Source: This is London

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

This is London

Becomes bizarrely comical as it gets increasingly depraved. But Herzog's deliberately bonkers approach, matched by Cage's hammy performance, is strangely entertaining.

May 27, 2010 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

Herzog has found a perfect partner in crime with Nicolas Cage.

May 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Express

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Allan Hunter

Daily Express

For me, Ferrara and Keitel will always be the bad lieutenant, but Werner Herzog is probably the only director qualified to take this on, and his bizarre reboot has a fascination all of its own.

May 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

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Rebooting Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant was odd enough. It's not like the original had been a hit. Or that the character was a superhero ripe for franchising.A psycho procedural it is, then. Nicholas Cage turns the knob up to 11, as he so often does, but it's mostly appropriate, though traumatising old ladies stretches

November 19, 2008

Dean McKenna

Super Reviewer

I recently watched the first Bad Lieutenant film, not sure if this is a sequel of sorts or not? It is no where near as dramatic as the first, but I actually prefer this version as it has a bit more structure to it and less random. Cage plays a cop who may do bad things but often it is a means to an end. He has a drug

June 28, 2010

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