Product: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans [Blu-ray] (2009)
Rating: 4.0
Ok, and just OK
Short Attention Span Summary:1. Bad Lieutenant seems to have some sort of drug addiction. (This takes place in the context of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.)2. We see him doing things like sticking up club patrons for their drugs and then taking them and snorting them up himself.3. He has a hooker girlfriend who is mistreated by a John (she snorts almost as much dope as he does), and to whose rescue Bad Lieutenant comes-- but at the price of upsetting a group of small time mobsters that hold him responsible for $50,000.4. There is also a murder of a family of Haitians that needs to be resolved (this is actually what starts the film).5. The cop finds a Witness To The Murder, who is afraid to testify lest he be killed. The people who were murdered were also affiliated with drug dealers, who left no evidence.6. Witness to the Murder disappears, but we later find out that he has gone to England-- but this is only after this drug crazed cop pulls a gun on an old woman in a wheelchair to extract a confession.7. Eventually, the cop strikes a deal with a Big Drug Dealer for protection in exchange for cash and dope.8. Just as this deal is being clinched, mobsters-to-whom-Bad-Lieutenant-owes-money walk in to collect their money (and foolishly decide to rob the Big Drug Dealer at the same time).9. The Big Drug Dealer and cop kill them all and this creates enough evidence for the cop to plant at the murder scene to indict the Big Drug Dealer who murdered the family.10. Aftermath: Cop takes hooker out of business and has a baby with her, but is later seen sticking up bar patrons for drugs again. The end.Comments:This film was OK (I mean, if someone paid to have Nicholas Cage act in a film, there is a limit to how bad that film could be-- at least theoretically). Nicholas Cage really did make me believe that I was looking at a coke-head cop.To me, this is worth a matinee movie ticket or maybe (possibly) even a rental off the New Release shelf. It's certainly entertaining, though a bit implausible in some aspects.