Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Other than the name, this has nothing to do with the Harvey Keitel police drama in which he showed off his junk. Nicolas Cage is at his gonzo best as Terence, a New Orleans cop who, after getting injured on duty, suffers from major back pain. He gets addicted to painkillers and other drugs, and this starts to have a nasty effect on his daily routine. Cage here makes up for all of the crap he’s participated in over the last five years; this is his best performance of the decade. Director Werner Herzog gives Cage many moments to go batshit, and Cage does so with glee. (His stare-down with a couple of iguanas is a classic.) Eva Mendes (Cage’s co-star in Ghost Rider) is very good as Terence’s hooker girlfriend, while Xzibit gets his best acting work yet as a drug dealer. This is one of the year’s craziest movies.
By Bob Grimm
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Credits
Director:
- Werner Herzog
Cast:
- Nicolas Cage
- Eva Mendes
- Val Kilmer
- Alvin Joiner
- Fairuza Balk
- Shawn Hatosy
- Jennifer Coolidge
- Tom Bower
- Vondie Curtis-Hall
- Irma Hall
- Denzel Whitaker
- Michael Shannon
- Shea Whigham
- Lucius Baston
Producers:
- Edward R. Pressman
- Randall Emmett
- Alan Polsky
- Gaby Polsky
- Stephen Belafonte
- Avi Lerner
- Danny Dimbort
- Trevor Short
- Boaz Davidson
- Elliot Rosenblatt
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