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There is a point in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans where the absurdity hits a boiling point and it goes from an OK police procedural to an absolutely nutso character study. I would imagine most people would consider that moment to be when Nic Cage's Bad Lieutenant, Terrence McDonagh, watches two imaginary lizards cavorting on his coffee table while conducting a police stakeout. For me, that moment is laughably absurd, but the real launchpad into Cage/Herzog hysterics…
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On the surface, this may seem like just another corrupt copper tale. And then you see who is the corrupt copper. Nicolas Cage. And then you see who's directing. Werner Herzog. Two of cinema's most famous madmen working together on a story concerning a hallucinatory, drug-snorting/shooting police lieutenant? Why didn't anyone ever think of this before?!
As you may expect, Cage snatches the show out of everybody else's hands, wild-eyed and laughing manically as he runs off into the sunset…
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Damn I really liked this movie. Story was pretty cool and the acting was all top notch. I liked the cinematography, nice and simple, looked good in HD. The score was great. It does get a bit strange at times but it didn't bother me
edit: I've seen this many more times since my original review and this movie is great. Herzog can get wacky at times but he nails this film. Perfect performance by Cage. This is also one of the funniest movies of the last few years.
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The fuck were you thinking, Herzog!? I watched this on the premise that it was supposedly better than Ferrara's version and that Cage's performance outdid Keitel. Nope to both counts. Horribly written, directed and acted scene after scene. The absurdity of it all was the nail in it's coffin for me.
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*Part Of Keegan's Nicolas Cage 16th Birthday Marathon*
There is a fine perfection about this movie and after a swell lad named Darren pulled this out of the list of Cage movies...I never realised the amount of sheer awesome that this film is.
Nicolas Cage is by far the most interesting thing about this film, from his facial movements to his insanely entertaining laugh and ability to make Richard Trapp uncomfortable when he takes a young girls...umm...cookies.
One of the highlights of the party was the 'Shoot him again!' scene which remains to be one of the greatest movie scenes of all time.
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