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Zeggen dat cultcineast Abel Ferrara niet echt opgezet was met het idee dat zijn van relgieuze motieven gespeende cultklassieker ‘Bad lieutenant' een moderne make-over zou krijgen, is als zeggen dat de Oosterweelverbinding wel eens kopzorgen oplevert. Niet dat Werner Herzog, de vaandeldrager van de neue Deutsche Welle, zich er iets van aantrok, want diens update is niet zozeer een remake van Ferrara's schuld-en-boetelyriek, maar veeleer een geschifte policier die even wispelturig en bezwerend is als een bedwelmende lsd-trip.
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very strange and very active
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Who ever thought Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage would make a movie together? Well after seeing Bad Lieutenant it seemed like destiny.
if you think you've seen this movie before you are sorely mistaken. Although it shares part of the same with the Abel Ferrara film of the early 90's I assure this is nothing like it. Yes they are both about a corrupt cop's downward spiral into madness but what Cage does is so much different than Keitel. Cage… -
The ramp up of craziness in this one is more comically absurd and feels less real when compared to the Ferrara's movie. Its less grounded in reality, and the incidental characters seem much more forgiving to the eccentricities of the main character. Yet it is incessantly entertaining, and Cage's performance is sublime.
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I really don't know what to make of this film. I have heard it is not a sequel or a remake, but a rethought to the original Bad Lieutenant...which I never saw by the way.
The story is quite bland and the film isn't original in any sense. It feels like a LONG two hours watching it.
BUT...
Cage is so over the top batsh*t fantastic in this movie. And the worse trouble he gets himself into, the crazier he…
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The overwhelming absurdity lent itself to almost all my enjoyment. Nicolas Cage lets loose in a rare performance where his extravagant insanity is perfectly suited.
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NICHOLAS CAGE IS SUBLIME IN THIS FILM AND IF YOU SAY OTHERWISE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND GOOD ACTING.
Also, the ending is amazing.
Herzog and Cage need to pair up more.
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Herzog directing Nicolas Cage is a good combo. Nicolas Cage's best performance in years.
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Nick Cage is a very strange actor. There is definitely a demographic that loves his absolutely over the top performances, and he has many, but I am not one of them. I've never really been fond of watching Nick Cage do his unhinged performances.
Unfortunately, this film lives or dies on Nick Cage's performance. Seeing as I generally dislike watching Nick Cage do his best crackhead impression, it's not exactly surprising that I didn't find The Bad Lieutenant at all…
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brilliance
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"Shoot him again..." "What the fuck for?!" "His soul's still dancing."
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More of an "experience" than a movie. Nicolas Cage is all over the place in this one (even adopting a strange speech impediment during the second act which is gone by the third), and there's some pretentious bullshit going on behind the camera with Werner Herzog's personal "reptile cam" every time a critter shows up on screen. The story is a mess, but the performances make it watchable.