Product: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans [Blu-ray] (2009)
Rating: 4.0
The Only Criminal He Can't Catch Is Himself.
Cage on Crack. Exactly. This is what you get. This is not a film for everyone. You have to have a great sense of the absurd and a great sense of humour.Post Katrina and the world is dark and dreary and so is the lieutenant. He has hurt his back trying to save a prisoner and can hardly walk. Watching Cage walk from the backside is interesting, his suit coat looks like he left the hanger in and the right side of his body is hanging. He has a shuffling sort of walk that looks painful., and he is taking Vicodin, pot, crack and whatever he can get his hands on. His new assignment is to find the killer of a family of five- probably a drug killing. The Lt. does his best and even on multiple drugs and no sleep for days, he is a magnificent detective. As his boss says 'The only criminal he can't catch is himself'. I figure this must be the reason they keep him on. He has many complaints about his behavior that come rolling in, and his gun is taken away. But, somehow, he keeps on with a job,sometimes with the crooks and sometimes with the good guys. His girlfriend, Eva Mendes, is a prostitute, a high priced one from the looks of her apartment.His father was in the force, but is now trying to recover from alcoholism. The Lt is just doing the best he can.Lots of strange filming of crocodiles and iguanas from Werner Herzog, the director, but somehow the film gels. The violence and the drugs all intersperse with the storyline. Cage does a wonderful over the top job with his role and with a few laughs thrown in with the rest of the misery, this is a film I liked.Recommended. prisrob 04-19-10City of Angels (Snap Case)Encounters at the End of the World