After severely injuring his back while saving a prisoner from drowning in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, homicide detective Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) is promoted to lieutenant, prescribed painkillers and returned to active duty. A year later, he is addicted to both Vicodin and cocaine. But his responsibilities to the force continue, and when a family of African immigrants is found massacred, Terence is handed the case by his superiors.
In the convoluted moral universe in which Terence lives, it's possible to be a protective boyfriend to his escort girlfriend Frankie (Eva Mendes), look after a witness wanted by a notorious drug dealer (played by car-modifying rapper Xzibit), score drugs from intimidated club kids, regularly hallucinate about reptiles, have a lucky crack pipe and still somehow be charged with protecting the general public.
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November 20, 2009: Review: Bad Lieutenant:
PLOT: New Orleans cop Terrence McDonagh (Nic Cage) slides into drug abuse after a back injury during Hurricane Katrina. He falls further and further into corruption as he accosts club goers, steals cocaine from his precinct and joins a gang of drug...
November 13, 2009: Bad Lieutenant clip:
If you haven't heard already, BAD LIEUTENANT is destined to become a cult classic . Why? Well probably for scenes like this one. A new clip is online that has Nicolas Cage at an old folks' home resorting to some pretty drastic measures. But hey, he...
October 9, 2009: Bad Lt. trailer #2:
Somebody needs to take my temperature: I'm actually looking forward to 2 -count 'em TWO- projects involving Nic Cage; KICK ASS of course, and now BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS . Val Kilmer looking like his 80s crazy self...
September 17, 2009: TIFF: Bad Lieutenant:
PLOT: Terence McDonagh (Nicholas Cage) is a coke/ heroine snorting, crack smoking, pill popping police detective with a bad back, a call girl girlfriend (Eva Mendes), and a gambling addiction working in post Hurricane Katrina New Orleans....
September 4, 2009: Bad Lieutenant poster:
For this BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS poster, they should've dispensed with the already bulky tagline and instead gone with ATTACK OF THE FLOATING HEADS. The noggins of Nic Cage and Eva Mendes float ominously over New Orleans in this poster...
August 17, 2009: Bad Lieutenant pics:
In 1992, Harvey Keitel starred in a movie called BAD LIEUTENANT . Now in 2009, it's being remade with Nic Cage and Val Kilmer carrying the title BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS.
Unfortunately, I have not had the pleasure/displeasure of...
May 27, 2009: Bad Lieutenant trailer:
Nic Cage obviously read the article below this one in which I totally bashed his choice of movies as well as his choice of hair. So what did he do? He called director Werner Herzog and begged him to release the trailer for BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS....
June 6, 2008: Werner Herzog is crazy:
Werner Herzog is a pimp. And not in the way that my father was a pimp, but in the way Ernest Hemingway was a pimp. Here’s a guy who has the audacity to remake a cult classic and claim to have never seen a movie by the director who made it. He actually claims...
