Product: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans [Blu-ray] (2009)
Rating: 2.0
nothing much
Boy, did I hate this movie: it took me nearly 13 hours to get through it because I couldn't stand to watch more than 5-10 minutes at a time.Mind you, I'm a Herzog fan! I got this because I've been on quest for the last couple of years to collect all of his movies on DVD, something I believe as of this writing to be impossible (e.g., HERDSMEN OF THE SUN).Herzog sure puts me off my feed: I can swallow his arthouse films just fine; it's his more mainstream jobs that are over my head.For example, what is he up to with this one, BAD LIEUTENANT? While watching it, I had to check the DVD case a couple of times to ensure it was directed by Herzog, but no: the iguana scenes, if nothing else, are his lion's paw.On the surface it's a story of a corrupt cop in post-Katrina New Orleans who manages to get the job done even though nobody expects him to. Haven't we seen this material before, and done much better? The dialogue is forgettable, the lessons the script purports to inculcate are murky when not hackneyed, and the film doesn't render much of the flavor of life in New Orleans. Worse, Nicholas Cage is not very convincing except in parts.But seeing over 2 hours of this cop messing up his life and everybody else's life made for some pretty uncomfortable viewing. Heck, I was able to watch longer chunks of EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL.And, man! How Val Kilmer has fallen.