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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Released: 21/05/2010
General Release
Nicholas Cage plays rogue detective Terence McDonagh in this crime drama from director Werner Herzog, who doesn't make things easy for the reckless character. McDonagh's gradual descent is indicated by a number of unsolved murders, drug addiction and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Destined for cult status...?
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80 %
The Independent“Gobsmacking...” At times the mood becomes so ominous you could almost believe Herzog is presenting a morality tale. How bad can this lieutenant get?...
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60%
The Telegraph“Bonkers in a good way...” Herzog has borrowed little from Abel Ferrara’s altogether dourer 1992 Bad Lieutenant except those two words and a guiding principle of dangerous excess. Crazy is written all over The Bad Lieutenant...
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80 %
The Times“A brazenly crackpot cop drama...” The plot is irrelevant. The resolution doesn’t matter. The fundamental pleasure of this film resides in watching Cage on screen. Doing something. Anything...
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80 %
Channel4 Film“Whatever you do, don't call it a remake...” Natural brothers in arms Werner Herzog and Nicholas Cage partner to hilarious effect to create a meandering but supremely enjoyable dip into one man's queasy journey...
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60%
Little White Lies“Precariously poised on the cliff-edge of absurdity...” The script’s all over the place and Herzog indulges his ego to a fault, but Cage is brazen and exhilarating. Nic goes nasty with a fearless routine that is equal parts hammy, radiant and hilarious. Film’s too long, though.
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100%
Time Out film“There’s never been a movie quite like this before...” 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...
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100%
Empire“An exhilarating riff on the cop-thriller drama... ” An exhilarating riff on the cop-thriller drama by a director at the top of his game...
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70 %
Variety“A tad loony...” If Cage was looking for a vehicle in which his hyper-emoting would be dramatically justifiable, he found one here. Sometimes he's so over the top it's funny, which one can hope was intentional...
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80 %
Total Film “Unadulterated, blissful fun...” Exquisitely absurd and operatic in its fever-dream intensity. It’s not long into Werner Herzog’s lunatic noir about an irredeemably corrupt, nasty, grannyterrorising nutjob with a badge (Nicolas Cage) that you’ll be grinning ear to ear...
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80 %
Guardian“Mesmerising...” Herzog's devil-may-care insouciance has paid off brilliantly. He does not retread Bad Lieutenant so much as reinvent it. Cage gives what is surely his best performance in years as Terence McDonough...
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