Product: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans [Blu-ray] (2009)
Rating: 5.0
Herzog is alive & well
Werner Herzog made another masterful film in "Bad Lieutenant". He brought new heights to Nicolas Cage's lo life expressionism. The story moves at a choreographic cadence like a dance whose frenzy is resolved not by the antihero's doubly heroic actions, but by fate that smiles on the good and bad with the same beneficence. The film moves from one convoluted relationship to another continually tightening the tension being lubricated with dark humor and surreal visions fitting comfortably with "single purpose". Herzog carries the audience to agree with the action through the use of our sympathy and horrific events. We empathize with the monster because we know he is us were we him. Through the fear we find humanity surfacing to bring redemption.