Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer
Director: Werner Herzog
Rating: 2.5/5
Nicolas Cage is known for taking slightly off the cuff roles and taking on strange and somewhat eccentric characters... and with Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans this trend continues.
A rogue detective is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs -- while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon.
Complicating his tumultuous life is the prostitute he loves. Together they descend into their own world marked by desire, compulsion, and conscience.
It's fair to say that no one can handle a crazed character like Cage and this movie is worth a watch just for his performance.
Werner Herzog has produced a movie that is jokey, weird as well as being very sympathetic and is a movie that only this filmmaker can get away with making.
To be quite honest the story isn't really that interesting, something that we have seen so many times before, but it's Cage's central performance that really does keep you hooked to the film.
Cage and Herzog have teamed up to make a movie with a unique flair, even if the story itself is a little dull, but Herzog's bonkers approach and Cage's off the wall performance really do work well together.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans's script does perhaps dip a little bit in the middle but watch this movie to another interesting turn from Cage.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is out now.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw