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if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Imagine Dirty Harry with a bad coke habit, played by Nicolas Cage in New Orleans. Cage gives us an outstanding performance as someone who goes though those violent coke induced mood swings. The iguana which appears in the movie from time to time is symbolic of the metaphor "monkey on the back." Cage is investigating a brutal family execution and interweaves his personal failings into the process. His girlfriend is a prostitute who he protects and supplies drugs. He has a gambling habit, and owes money (bets too much on LSU) and of course steals from the evidence locker.He also shakes down people for information, even grandmothers. Makes Dirty Harry look like a sissy. Lots of drug use, bad language, sexual situations, and some violence.Good story. Plot fairly simple to follow. The movie, at time, has the feel of a dark comedy.

Name one thing that forces you to continue watching this ? The answer is : the desire of seeing "how low can it go ?!"Don't you ever believe the yak about it as realistic, character study, social commentary, and sophisticated arty piece of cinema. It's baloney; and I mean this movie along with that talk !Someone even said that this is a wonderful black comedy. Baby, this movie isn't, your title is !In fact, this movie could be nothing but a comedy gone wrong. Though in terms of comedy, and long titles, The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call - New Orleans (2009) reminded me of Juiskers II : The Sequel with No Prequel (2006), and Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000). Because this may be a parody of its original. However, comedy without timing isn't comedy !In a June 2008 interview with The Guardian, Abel Ferrara, who directed and co-wrote the original Bad Lieutenant, said that finding out his movie was being remade was "a horrible feeling", "like when you get robbed". He also wondered how Nicolas Cage "can even have the nerve to play Harvey Keitel", and called screenwriter William M. Finkelstein an idiot. Putting in mind how the remake turned out to be, I couldn't agree more !Fairly, this is a movie that tried so seriously to be something bigger than its original, and itself, but didn't have the abilities, hence ended up as a really bad joke. Bad Lieutenant, bad movie, and - with tons of pointless remakes lately - bad Hollywood.

Most of the reviews for this film fall into one of two categories: the ones that claim it is a misunderstood work whose esoteric nuances leave the masses bemused; or the ones that label it simply a monument to ineptitude. I subscribe to neither view.Well... at least not entirely.Bad Lieutenant Port Of Call does contain certain conceits that may be likened to pretensions. But to tell the truth I love the conceits. Some of them are really absurd and I get a real hoot out of Herzog's audacity whenever they occur. We all know which scenes I'm referring to & there's no need to introduce spoilers here. Suffice to say - reptiles, dancing & oxygen tanks are involved. But however audacious the pretensions are they do not elevate this film to the level of art. It is not a misunderstood masterpiece. This is not to say, however, that Herzog's film is totally without artistic merit.The film's detractors usually complain about Cage being a poor substitute for Harvey Keitel. That the storyline does not meld seamlessly enough with the first Bad Lieutenant film. Or that the storyline is erratic & poorly developed. These are for the main part subjective criticisms & should not deter viewers from seeing this film. Or from seeing it for what it really is: a dark, quirky & sometimes comical thriller about a detective trying his utmost to do his job while wrestling with his own inner demons.Bad Lieutenant Port Of Call does not fall into the category of flawed masterpiece. At the same time it cannot be called a bad film. To me it's just a good thriller. Oh yeh... and did I mention that it's a real hoot?

As the title suggests, this is an unconventional film about an unconventional police lieutenant, and it's quite hard to pin down an opinion on it because it is unlike anything I have ever seen in terms of style and story.Having seen several Nicholas Cage films, I was fully expecting to see him play his typical worldly-wise middle aged man role despite having read the synopsis (think the National Treasure [2004; 2007] and Knowing [2009]). I was surprised to see him play a completely different character and it was oddly refreshing to see him break away from his typecast. Cage is completely believable as an erratic drug addict, his odd behaviour and strange visions of iguanas (when you see the film, you'll understand) strangely draw you in to his rough, "trippy" world. The film often loses you, at points it is hard to understand how the current scene links to the previous, but that is all part of the effect. Even the supporting characters are fuzzy and it's hard to work out who is taking drugs and who isn't. The story makes sense but doesn't necessarily follow a typical linear structure; it's slow but you never feel like there's something that doesn't matter to the overall storyline. It manages to project Cage's character's decline onto every other aspect of the film in such a way that you don't really notice until the very end. It's downright bizarre.It's difficult to put your finger on whether or not this film is enjoyable, and the reasons why. If nothing else, the story is cleverly presented to perfectly depict the decline caused by addiction, and leaves you feeling fuzzy-headed yourself. A strange viewing that very much keeps you thinking once it has finished.