Product: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans [Blu-ray] (2009)
Rating: 1.0
Very Bad Lieutenant
From what has been said here by a few other reviewers this is among Nicolas Cage's"best" pictures..Pardon me for being crude but these reviwers must also enjoy getting poked in the eye with a sharp stick..Aside from the bizarre nature of the direction,this film has very little going for it..Sure,werner Herzog was(is?) a darling among the artsy fartsy crowd,but that really doesn't excuse this mess..The fact that it more or less went directly to video seems.im view,to say it all;no one EXCEPT the artsy fartsy crowd really wanted to see this picture,and as thier numbers combined have trouble filling the seats at the local cinema,this picture was doomed to failure from the word"go"..A drug addicted corrupt cop,lurking around in the devasted post-Katrina New Orleans,hunting for his next fix and a criminal dirtbag would,in more capable hands,have been just the starting point to an interesting,if not great thriller...Instead we get bogged down in boring scenes that contribute nothing to the plot,and the director's eccentric,if not insane takes from the vantage point of alligators and iguanas..A very bad film indeed...