Product: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans [Blu-ray] (2009)
Rating: 5.0
Great Fun for Those Who Love Kafka and Dark Humor
This is a crime drama set in the dark, dingy and damp back streets of New Orleans. In it, Nicolas Cage is perfectly cast as a drug-addicted, pain-ridden corrupt cop. The director is Werner Herzog at his best. Cage and Herzog were meant to work together.If this was a "straight" crime drama, it probably would be boring for many viewers. It is not straight at all. It is an "in-stitches" dark comedy made hilarious by Herzog's genius for darkness and surprises, many involving seemingly senseless introductions of animals.Those who see humor in the smirk on the face of the undeserving recipient of a worthless and rigged "employee of the month" award will love this movie. Others who take everything "straight" will not get it, are certain to be disappointed and would give it two or three stars.