Absolutely the worst movie.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Nicolas Cage - an Oscar winning actor in Werner Herzog's movie "Bad Lieutenant" which has nothing to do with Harvey Keitel's 1992 film, goes absolute crazy in some scenes, but not as furious as he can. These limitations can be for good, to keep movie's tone in check. And there are no reasons to break drama genre and go bizarre into even more comedic and crazier tone. Because comedy is a pretty usual thing in this flick. Cage's character Terence McDonagh is a drug addict, very reactionary, he is frightening at times, because of what he is capable of, but inside he is a good , selfish person, who just seeks a way out. He has this back problem, taking pills, which aren't helping, he basically takes his own medicine ,using cocaine mostly with his prostitute girlfriend Frankie (Eva Mendes). After a group homicide of several immigrants Detective McDonagh is assigned to investigate. This and his personal problems lead this character into an interesting ending. Watching the movie you can't dislike Terence, the direction is really effective to make us care about, at first look, a scum like McDonagh. The plot goes many unexpected ways. Thanks to screenwriter William M. Finkelstein, who definitely wrote an engaging script.After loosing the main witness for immigrant's case, McDonagh goes rogue, uniting with the drug-boss, to make some quick money in order to pay debts and save his girlfriend from what she got herself into. That lead to a group of absolutely unexpected events that are not to be estimated anyhow. Nic Cage's character is that chemical element, provoking those events as he becomes a completely different person throughout the film.The humor in this film is one special part that I enjoyed the most. Not only McDonagh is a guy who threatens helpless old people, but does it with style, and with script's emotional help by making those old people not only victims but villains in that scene, which is it absolutely funny, because emotionally you expect and want McDonagh to do so. There no much action in this film, at some point it becomes a little fantasy of a drug addict. Moments of him, seeing dancing sole and stuff like that makes this movie even more bizarre, but Herzog doesn't overuse scenes like that, so to make this movie a good combination of drama, comedy and addict's fantasy.

Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans is not to be compared or criticized alongside Abel Ferrera's original slam dunk gutter piece. The two films are completely different animals and share nothing but the title, and the theme of a cop gone bad. Here the cop in question is Detective Terence Mcdonough (Nicolas Cage), a coke snorting, endlessly corrupt live wire with a bad back and a worse temper. He's living the down and dirty life in New Orleans with his equally strung out, whorebag of a girlfriend (Eva Mendes) and equally corrupt partner Stevie (Val Kilmer). He's one bad move away from being kicked off the force, and one bad bet away from incurring the wrath of his menacing bookie (Brad Dourif). Even so, he wades deeper into nasty, post Katrina waters, getting involved with a volatile gangster (Xzibit) and falling further down the sinkhole of drugs and debauchery that has consumed him. Cage gives some of the best work of his last decade, a tweeked out tirade of reprehensible behaviour and manic facial contortions that scare characters and the audience alike. The cast is ripe with talent, actors like Tom Bower, Michael Shannon, Jennifer Coolidge and Fairuza Balk rounding out the roster. Herzog brings his flair for all things weird to the table here, giving the film oddball characteristics in places where it could have fallen into st right crime drama. It's colourful as well, not the drab, run down New Orleans we see in some films, but bright, crazy costumes on even crazier people. Those iguanas are a nice touch too.

A very strange and not entirely satisfying movie from maverick director Werner Herzog. While it bears narrative similarity to the cult Abel Ferrera film starring Harvey Keitel, it's an entirely separate movie that looks and feels totally different. It stars Nicolas Cage as a drug-addled, out-of-his-mind detective on the track of some murderous drug dealers, but the narrative is by far the weakest part of the movie.It's rambling, insincere and at over two hours, overlong. But Herzog is one of the most interesting directors of our time, and his style does count for a lot. He also elicits a decent performance from Cage; while some might class his acting here as hammy, I think it goes beyond that to offer a touch of inspirational genius. Certainly Cage is entirely convincing as a drugged-up madman.Herzog goes on to include a handful of truly outstanding and darkly funny scenes in his film, the highlight of which is the jaw-dropping "his soul is dancing" sequence; there are other bits involving iguanas which are equally entrancing. Come the end, it's true to say that the end result is less than the sum of its components, but this film's refusal to be pigeonholed and its touches of madness make it a more than interesting curio.

Big actors like Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Will Smith, Nicolas Cage and many others all have there good films, there OK films and there are bad films. Bad Lieutenant is one of Nicolas Cages OK films. I have never seen the original film and I only watched this only because Nicolas Cage was in it. The film is about a police lieutenant who has bad back pain and the medication from the doctor is not helping so he starts taking drugs, having sex with young fit girls on the street and mixing with the wrong kind of people. The film had its ups and downs, rocky storyline and there were parts in the film i didn't think were needed like the odd 5 minutes of stupid music and funny camera angles well staring at a lizard or a snake and even a stupid little scene after someone got killed and there soul is brake dancing right next to it's body, why did they put that in what was the point of adding this in why did they put this in, it was like they were trying to put step up 2 the streets and Bad Lieutenant together I couldn't understand why they added this. Apart from that the film was OK, the action is good, so is the acting and the story is rocky and is really slow at times. The film also stars the very hot Eva Mendes and the famous ex Batman actor Val Kilmer. I gave the film a 7/10 it was OK but could if been a lot better.