Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
30 September 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
11 November 1980, Detroit, Michigan, USA
30 September 1950, Detroit, Michigan, USA
22 March 1978
14 November 1949, Amory, Mississippi, USA
5 March 1974, Miami, Florida, USA
11 May 1984
30 March 1982, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
29 December 1975, Frederick, Maryland, USA
5 November 1968, Greenville, Mississippi, USA
18 March 1950, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
17 November 1966, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
25 February 1922
13 June 1965, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
28 July 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
27 November 1954, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
July 26, 2011
If Herzog had chosen realism over surrealism, this film would have been predictable and unentertaining. As it is, I found it oddly captivating. This is one weird movie.
May 20, 2010
In fusing European experimentalism and Hollywood boldness, Herzog has created a genuine oddity, a furious and unforgettable hybrid which may well prove to be 2010's most purely enjoyable moviegoing experience.
November 25, 2009
Like the late Klaus Kinski, who so often played crazies in Herzog's earlier movies, Cage is in your face all the way. Laughing maniacally, lying with no sign of a conscience, he pushes the character's frequent tantrums beyond over-the-top.
April 04, 2011
[Cage is] hilarious, scary, contorted, mournful, mean and weirdly, monstrously lovable -- the perfect actor to work with one of the world's most stubborn, bold, idiosyncratic filmmakers.
February 17, 2014
Herzog wades deep into the swampy funk of New Orleans, which in this post-Katrina setting might as well be an end-of-the-world movie. He's clearly turned on by [its] weirdness, the casual corruption, the gangsterism and the Southern Gothic outrageousnes.
February 02, 2011
Is redemption possible for this bad lieutenant? At one point, he orders that a dead man be shot again because "his soul is still dancing." If you find God in that line, then welcome to your movie heaven.
December 30, 2009
Cage, who usually goes gonzo with gusto, underplays this monster. That spoils the fun.
June 14, 2013
Sometimes a scene is a set up for a future plot twist, and sometimes Werner Herzog just wants to film some alligators. Who knows what'll happen? It's like filling your underpants with salamanders.
November 29, 2009
Nicolas Cage is so gleefully over-the-top as the troubled cop of the title that you will either be repulsed or fascinated by his performance and, since it lives or dies by it, the movie itself.
February 22, 2011
Nicolas Cage's deliriously unhinged portrayal of the film's titular bent cop ranks right up there with his most memorably off-kilter performances.
December 18, 2009
Nicolas Cage is out of his mind in The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call -- New Orleans. And it's wonderful to see.
