Product: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans [Blu-ray] (2009)
Rating: 1.0
Cage jumped the shark with this tripe
The preview I saw made this movie look similar to Denzel's "Training Days" except with Cage playing something close to his character from "Leaving Las Vegas" (replace booze with drugs, of course). This couldn't be further from the truth. There was absolutely nothing redeeming here (bad writing, amateurish directing and camera work, no atmosphere to the film even though it was filmed in post-Katrina N.O., etc.). The acting (by EVERYONE) was forced and uninspired. The dialogue in many scenes had to have been ad libbed because you could actually see it in the actors' faces when they were waiting on the other actors in the scene to finish.The worst atrocity was when Cage's accent changes at about the 1:03 mark. He starts off sounding like typical Cage, but then his voice suddenly starts sounding like the love-child of Jimmy Stewart and Edward G. Robinson (you think I'm joking...I wish I were). This lasts about 30 min before he goes back to normal Cage.I like Cage (and many of his flicks) so I feel bad for his current financial woes, but I'd rather simply mail him a check than pay to watch him ruin his legacy by making tripe like this movie. This movie was Cage's 'Jar-Jar-Binks'...I hope there won't be another.And for the record, the best 'crooked-crazy-drugged-out-cop' character was played by Gary Oldman in "The Professional" (aka "Leon").