Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Reviews and Ratings


  • 0001hrs
    December 7, 2009
    0001hrs
    Clearly one of the better, if not the best, Nicholas Cage performance to date. I love it when bad guys win.
  • flickfever
    December 4, 2009
    flickfever
    Nicolas Cage has become an actor that can pick and choose projects at his discretion. And, granted, sometimes his choices are inspired (Adaptation.); and sometimes they're of the pandering kind, (National Treasure 1 & 2). But sometimes, he makes a choice that is so off-the-charts...( read more) that you're left wondering, "What the hell was he thinking?"

    This update of the Harvey Keitel-vehicle Bad Lieutenant starts off with great promise. Set against the backdrop of a post-Katrina-battered New Orleans is a great glimpse into a city battered not only by nature, but by the remnants of and rampant violence that existed before the hurricane, and that lingered long afterward.

    Unfortunately, our little lieutenant is the epitome of corruption himself. He's a man without scruples who, addicted to most drugs known to man, must take on every criminal in town--just so he can score more crack for himself. He takes on hookers--after he's taken them for himself. He helps fight corruption--after he's made his own back-end deals. He is a hero in the eyes of the community and his department despite the fact that he may very well be high on heroin during his own induction ceremony at City Hall.

    There is a big pile of plots and themes that are presented. Some interesting; others not so much. It makes you wish the director would pick a direction and steer you into it. But it doesn't happen. The film is a disjointed jumble of crime-drama clichés from the corrupted cops, to the reformed alcoholics, to the hooker with a heart of gold that our protagonist frequents.

    While this is a far cry from Leaving Las Vegas, it makes you wonder what this film would have been like if it had actually been set on The Strip. I, for one, don't think it would have been any better if it had had the same crew and cast involved. The faults can be traced back to the film's uninspired screenplay and the gross underuse and mishandling of its cast. Val Kilmer is a total waste in a role (as the lieutenants partner) that is neither redeeming nor necessary.

    And speaking of redemption: there isn't anything that redeems our potty-mouthed, relentlessly ruthless, crack-addicted main character. There is no shred of empathy-inducing characteristics that he possesses. And, just as you realize that this guy is actually the film's villain and he deserves what he has coming--it never comes for him. Ironically--maybe cynically--I think this is the only thing this film got right in depicting: you can do all sorts of bad, bad things and still get away with it.

    I mean, this movie did get made after all. So, that must prove my point.
  • LickTheABCs
    December 3, 2009
    LickTheABCs
    At first, the movie seemed like a complete 'what the fuck?' type project. A not-needed remake, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Werner Herzog. I mean seriously, bro.. what the fuck?

    Well, it totally is exactly as you'd expect. Except, it doesn't suck. Yeah, I know dude, I c...( read more)ouldn't believe it either.

    Cage gives his most fucked up performance to date and Herzog out-crazies him every step of the way. You might not like it like I did, you might think it was too nuts or whatever, but you could never say it wasn't entertaining.
  • kmendoza20
    December 2, 2009
    kmendoza20
    This movie is crazy. But I would say Nicolas Cage at his best. Great performance by him. WHen you see the movie you will be like wtf ? ? ?
  • voodoomarijuana
    December 2, 2009
    voodoomarijuana
    Nick needs some money goe see this shit if its even three stars. Okay I got thirty dollars in the pool now so this better be worth it. Totally is. Farizua Balk half naked dominatrix. Val Kilmer as costarring lol if he had a name or part I dont remember it but he didnt see the Igu...( read more)anas on the table and thats all i know. Eva Mendez as a coked up prostitute.
  • myid38
    December 2, 2009
    myid38
    Download and watch the new movie Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans http://blog-movie.com/Bad-Lieutenant-Port-of-Call-New-Orleans.html
  • JoeEnHayZ
    December 1, 2009
    JoeEnHayZ
    Wtf this movie was a complete waste of 2 hrs, it had like no point.
    we love nicolas cage but man this was out there. prolly the worst movie hes ever done. in our opinion :)
  • TecmoSmokaBowl
    December 1, 2009
    TecmoSmokaBowl
    Maybe the craziest movie of the year! Nicholas Cage is pretty insane in this one....but that Werner Herzog guy probably had something to do with it. All his movies are at least partially insane!
  • Phonex
    December 1, 2009
    Phonex
    Directors fall out over film remake showcased at Venice festivalLet's have a drink and make up, says Werner Herzog, after Abel Ferrara criticises new version of Bad Lieutenant

    66th Venezia. 5.9.2009
  • her69eyes
    December 1, 2009
    her69eyes
    Although Nicolas Cage has made some... peculiar... choices in his acting career, you can still count on him to deliver a great performance with a meaty role every couple of years. There was "Adaptation" in 2002, "The Weather Man" in 2005, and now we have his latest great performa...( read more)nce in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans". Where this role differs, however, is that Cage is pretty much up to the same schtick that he brought to the table in efforts like "The Wicker Man". He's preposterous and completely over-the-top. An actor with so little restraint, however, is the perfect fit for a film by one of cinema's greatest eccentrics (and, I would argue, one of our greatest living directors), Werner Herzog.

    Cage plays Terence McDonagh, a New Orleans detective who, in the films opening sequence, injures his back in the process of saving a prisoner from Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters. Heroic this was not, however, as McDonagh was initially perfectly content with keeping his swiss-cotton underpants in tact.

    The back injury leads to Vicodin, the Vicodin leads to cocaine, and before you know it McDonagh is raping young girls, aiming guns at elderly nurses, and hallucinating break-dancing souls. The film, to make the understatement of the decade, is wild, and most peculiarly is how Herzog chooses to set this lunacy in a completely naturalistic environment. He appears to be playing it straight, even when we take a brief interlude to get the point-of-view of a hallucinated reptile.

    Where the film suffers is in the actual police procedural subplot. The murder investigation is not of much interest - it's so dull, in fact, that it distracts from the film's central relationships. The lack of restraint by both Cage and Herzog, on the other hand, will thwart your efforts of completely losing interest.

    Herzog's latest is a terrific mess of a film, a piece so delightfully obscene that you quite literally need to see it to believe it. It may not all work, but lesser Herzog still displays more audacity and invention than just about anything else at your local multiplex.
  • AsianNorthOfThailandGeneration
    December 1, 2009
    AsianNorthOfThailandGeneration
    " (Actor NICOLAS CAGE ) He ' s a cop but he liked get a drugs doring with his work . He ' ve to catch the peoples doing drugs at the streets , At the places , & The peoples who ' s selling a drugs . When he ' ve a times ?He would like go to see girl friend (EVA MENDES ) at condom...( read more)iniem .His girl friend also doing a drugs . They ' re would like to doing drugs together & get sexs . He often to seen her got a proplem with her guys . But every times he got helpful with that problems .He doing investgetions about the people who ' s selling a drugs . In finally he can catch the big mafias about selling a drugs . & he has move to a higher rank . "

    " I ' m give five stars to my favorite actor "
  • jenn1984106
    November 29, 2009
    jenn1984106
    Medicore... which is almost worse that bad
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    November 29, 2009
    hkpyiuodwk
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  • hobster1
    November 24, 2009
    hobster1
    Actor Nicolas Cage's loopy performance highlights this interesting portrait of a New Orleans Police officer investigating the murder of a family of African immigrants. Not a sequel to director Abel Ferrara's 1992 film, but rather a variation on the same theme with different char...( read more)acters. Certainly director Werner Herzog's most mainstream picture, it starts out as a rather scattered crime story, jumping from one vignette to another. As it progresses however it develops into an enjoyable caricature of the genre, a portrait of a renegade cop without a moral compass. No one one plays crazy like Nicolas Cage, and when he does, it can either entertain or irritate. Luckily, this time, his offbeat behavior enlivens the action considerably.
  • hugo777jcx1
    November 24, 2009
    hugo777jcx1
    ME ENCANTA COMO ACTOR NICOLAS CAGE...
    COMO PUEDO BAJARMELA??
  • DrZeek
    November 24, 2009
    DrZeek
    Terence McDonagh: Shoot him again.
    Deshaun 'Midget' Hackett: What the hell for?
    Terence McDonagh: His soul is still dancing.
    [laughs hysterically]

    A remake of a heavy early 90s cop drama starring Harvey Keitel into a dark comedy with Nicolas Cage in the lead and directed by W...( read more)erner Herzog. While the film does a good enough job balancing a lot of weirdness, Cage certainly gives his best performance in years, even if its not close to Keitel.

    The main character here is Terrence McDonagh, played by Cage, a New Orleans Police sergeant, who starts out as a good cop, receiving a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. During his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and later becomes addicted to prescription pain medication, leading to many more hardcore drugs, and eventually just basic corruption as a police officer, taking advantage of women, stealing evidence, and continuing to do drugs, although he does do well as an officer. McDonagh struggles with addictions and finds himself involved with drug dealer Big Fate, played by Xzibit, who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants. As the story goes on, McDonagh has to deal with more and more issues involving the case, his gambling habits, and issues with his prostitute girlfriend Frankie, played by Eva Mendes.

    To get this out of the way, even if I think the first film is very good, but not great, Keitel's performance is among the best performances that I have seen in film. That being said, Cage does a very good job here. He is in complete big bug eyes crazy mode that works in the same way it worked for him in Matchstick Men. As this film progresses and Cage's vices continue to get the better of him, he gets crazier and crazier, with hints of paranoia, and he is still sharp with his cop skills. Its a damn good role for him.

    Also fairing well are a number of supporting characters. Eva Mendes as his junkie girlfriend works. Val Kilmer is underplaying it well enough where you get just enough to make you want more of him. Xzibit is surprisingly effective. Best of all is Jennifer Coolidge, who many know as Stifler's mom, who following those 'Pie' films has been getting a lot of really goofy and stupid roles. Here she is actually in a legitmate role as Cage's father's alcoholic girlfriend and does a very good job.

    Assuming one is still involved with the film, forgiving a lot of the craziness that occurs, much of the problems I had came from the end, where, without going into spoilers, seems to deliver in ways that aren't deserved. I could have used more score as well.

    Setting the film in post-Katrina New Orleans works very well. Not focusing on the glitz and going with the real side of things. Moving the film here and out of New York as in the original film goes a long way in separating the two.

    Overall, its a strange sort of cop film with very good performances.

    Terence McDonagh: Its amazing how much you can get done when you have a simple purpose driving you.
  • myfavchords
    November 23, 2009
    myfavchords
    This movie is crazy, ridiculous, absurd and outrageous. Nicholas Cage is way over the top as a drug addicted cop. The plot is unbelievable as are the situations in this movie. However I would actually recommend this film because I had a great time watching it. If you are lookin...( read more)g for a over the top so bad it is good movie then definitely check this one out.
  • samhaley
    November 22, 2009
    samhaley
    I WANNA SEEIT MOVIE NOW SACRY MOVIE
  • zembie
    November 22, 2009
    zembie
    Is this a part two or somethin' like that?
  • sexygirl21167
    November 21, 2009
    sexygirl21167
    I'm not interestedin seeing this movie.
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    November 21, 2009
    joanne411
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  • rainy2213
    November 21, 2009
    rainy2213
    doesnt do any justice to see one of our finest screw up
  • patriciagage2002
    November 21, 2009
    patriciagage2002
    bad movie i will see it again
  • kenincalifornia
    November 20, 2009
    kenincalifornia
    I enjoyed Nicolas Cage in this role.
  • ilovetheeightiesforever
    November 20, 2009
    ilovetheeightiesforever
    i want to see this, it looks very good.
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    November 20, 2009
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  • InfamousHugo
    November 20, 2009
    InfamousHugo
    BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (2009)
    dir. Werner Herzog
    cast. Nicolas Cage, Eva Mandes, Val Kilmer

    Here's what Werner Herzog has to say about directing a remake of Abel Ferrara's "cult" flick Bad Lieutenant: I've never even seen the original film, so

    ...( read more) we know now the films have nothing to do with each other. (It was the film's producers who insisted on the title) It was a speculation to start a franchise. And from day one, I said this is a mistake, it will backfire, it is wrong. Got it. Its not a remake.

    Nicolas Cage is a terrific actor. He is fearless. Unfortunately, he never seems to know how to dose it in whatever roles he picks. Or actually, his performances are barely ever suitable to the characters he plays, making him look bad, uselessly quirky and annoying. With Bad Lieutenant he finds the shoe that fits. His paring with the German director is a match made in heaven. They both understand the material, which would have been bad in lesser hands.

    Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is like an over-the-top parody, and I can already hear some people asking what it is that critics like about this film. The tone is subtle, and it can easily be mistaken as a badly written screenplay, when in fact, it is a terrific film.

    Cage is the painkiller-addicted Lieutenant who has to solve a murder, while dealing with mobsters, drug dealers, his prostitute girlfriend, some gambling problem, etc ... There is a lot going on. At one point I was afraid it would all fall apart, but instead, every subplot is imbricated and nothing is left unresolved in the end. But Bad Lieutenant isnt really about the plots - or the subplots - but rather about the madness, almost surrealistic, but its not even close to be a character study.

    Werner Herzog said of his film its the most hilarious one of his resume. I agree, but not hilarious in a laugh-out-loud way. Herzog doesnt take the script seriously and lets the story tell itself. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans has nothing to do with the Harvey Keitel flick of 1992. A lot of people will be turned off by its crudeness, or they simply wont get its tone. Its not for everyone, but its a terrific film, and it features Nicolas Cage's best performance in years.
  • ankomah2g5
    November 20, 2009
    ankomah2g5
    really need to see dis movie
  • jeangalvez2002
    November 20, 2009
    jeangalvez2002
    want to see this movies
  • lygaer
    November 20, 2009
    lygaer
    ur just like a stone who hav no felling damn u
  • wilfredonarcisojr
    November 20, 2009
    wilfredonarcisojr
    if it's cage it must be very good movie
  • dithzpa3rt
    November 19, 2009
    dithzpa3rt
    whoa im a great fan of nicolas cage....yahooooooooooooo
  • alidaalaba
    November 19, 2009
    alidaalaba
    NICHOLAS CAGE THE BEST....ACTOR
  • SeetheChild
    November 19, 2009
    SeetheChild
    Holy shit does this look fucking amazing, I've never been a fan of the Harvey Keitel version and thankfully they put Nicolas Cage in the role where he appears to rival his bat-shit crazy awesome performance in Vampire's Kiss. I'll be first in line.
  • reneandres1
    November 19, 2009
    reneandres1
    para ser una historia real se ve interesante
  • maggaly
    November 19, 2009
    maggaly
    Yes I love Nicolas Cage is the best actor
  • pincat1
    November 19, 2009
    pincat1
    test review, wts, in prod, from theaters page, review widget
  • sonnyllevares
    November 19, 2009
    sonnyllevares
    i love to see cage movie
  • marloncallao
    November 19, 2009
    marloncallao
    nice movie..i love, ,nicolas cage,,,
  • bertneutrino
    November 19, 2009
    bertneutrino
    IT IS AN INTERSTING FILM
  • markcesa21
    November 19, 2009
    markcesa21
    hahaha,,
    cage make some fuckig movie again..
  • johnnyalorromayo
    November 18, 2009
    johnnyalorromayo
    i love cages movies i m a great fan
  • shermaindrigo
    November 18, 2009
    shermaindrigo
    yah I want to see this one
  • LordHeartless
    November 18, 2009
    LordHeartless
    Nicholas Cage ... oh lord
  • baseballdad032
    November 18, 2009
    baseballdad032
    A little slow at times
  • micmacjunior17
    November 18, 2009
    micmacjunior17
    It looks a great movie!!!

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Summary