Product: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans [Blu-ray] (2009)
Rating: 1.0
Exquisitely Sucky B Movie
Nicholas Cage proves once and for all that he cannot act. That aside, he was severely miscast in the lead role as a 'bad' guy or a 'lieutenant' He's the same loser from MoonStruck, who never grew up. In this flick, he whined out his lines from a pathetically cliched script. He's not scary, he's not the right size physically, his clothes don't fit and he's asleep through most of the film. He's just not tough guy material. He's a kid.The acting was uniformly dull. Val Kilmer didn't have an identifiable role nor did he have a thing to do with moving the so-called story along. Many scenes looked like the actors were playing pretend and making up their lines on the spot with an amateurish enthusiasm. Werner Herzog made this piece B- movie? That's a shame, for him.I guess the production couldn't afford an editor to cut the many superfluous scenes in which the characters verbally updated us on the plot in slow motion. Everyone in the movie must have been whoring for their SAG cards. The only interesting feature was seeing Jennifer Coolidge in a serious part, though her stereotyped role was complete after only one scene. Thereafter, she was a rerun serving no purpose whatsoever to the plot. The story was cobbled together unrealistically enough to make sure the viewer didn't give a damn about any characters by the time the irrelevant and stupidly lingering aquarium scene finally goes black at the end. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz.I'm surprised this flim was released, even if it had only gone directly to DVD. It's that bad. Don't bother with this movie. Those who made it didn't.