Full Review. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans has been done to twisted perfection. Tagging Nicholas Cage to play a gambling, call girl dating, crack addicted cop investigating an incredibly brutal murder? While getting critical acclaim, audiences were divided. BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans was chosen by Roger Ebert as one of the twenty best films of the recently-concluded decade. It's good to be bad. A police detective (Nicolas Cage) serving in post-Katrina New Orleans becomes addicted to prescription pain medication after being injured in the line of duty, and quickly starts using street drugs. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. And indeed, the new film has much in common with some of Herzog's crazed past masterworks like Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) and Fitzcarraldo (1982). It carries the plot of countless modern cop … At Bay Area theaters.) While I can't summon anywhere near that much enthusiasm for this, I can definitely call it interesting. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans isn't dreadfully dull or sloppily disjointed like its title suggests; Instead, It's one of the most truly extraordinary films to ever fall into a sense of obscurity or opaqueness. That is a win, especially if you let Cage run with it. The ending to Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans is rapped in a big promenade of Hollywood ridiculousness that is completely unaligned with the rest of the film. Police drama. BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS will appeal to fans who know the work of German-born maverick director Werner Herzog. 3.0 out of 5 stars He wasn’t as “bad” as the other Bad Lieutenant. Why is Bad Lieutenant so unbearable then? It places him in a devastated New Orleans not long after Hurricane Katrina. Terrence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) is an out-of-control police detective and Frankie (Eva Mendes) is his hooker girlfriend in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans." There is a point in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans where the absurdity hits a boiling point and it goes from an OK police procedural to an absolutely nutso character study. I would imagine most people would consider that moment to be when Nic Cage's Bad Lieutenant, Terrence McDonagh, watches two imaginary lizards cavorting on his coffee table while conducting a police stakeout. The road to his drug addiction is not clearly presented either. B ad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is many things: Werner Herzog’s first American-set fictional feature since Stroszek, the canniest use in recent memory of Nicolas Cage’s bruise-purple twitchiness, and, pound by pound, arguably the year’s funniest film.What it isn’t, despite its cumbersome title and narrative similarities, is a remake of Abel Ferrara’s scummy 1992 masterpiece. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a 2009 American crime drama film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Tom Bower, Jennifer Coolidge, Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner, Val Kilmer, and Brad Dourif. I … October 24, 2019 [A]n unforgettable and exhilarating experience. (R. 121 minutes. November 10, 2018 Harvey Keitel was much better but if you’re a fan of Nicholas Cage this is one of … Herzog provides some insightful information about his directorial … It makes no attempt to show that city of legends in a flattering light. We only see one act of bravery, and that is not enough to establish him as a good cop. The Making of 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans' (SD, 31 min) – Free from most of the promo fluff you see packed into these, this making of is a good in depth look at the making of the film. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is my favourite amongst these later films, but I wonder if this is partly because Herzog's personality is contained within the generic format...but, I will admit, like the original Bad Lieutenant, it is a very eccentric crime film. Nikki Baughan Roll Credits. It wants to tell that a good cop turns bad because of back pain, but this transition is so unconvincing.