Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

TeenzTen An action-packed slog

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

elshikh4 Name one thing that forces you to continue watching this ? The answer is : the desire of seeing "how low can it go ?!"Don't you ever believe the yak about it as realistic, character study, social commentary, and sophisticated arty piece of cinema. It's baloney; and I mean this movie along with that talk !Someone even said that this is a wonderful black comedy. Baby, this movie isn't, your title is !In fact, this movie could be nothing but a comedy gone wrong. Though in terms of comedy, and long titles, The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call - New Orleans (2009) reminded me of Juiskers II : The Sequel with No Prequel (2006), and Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000). Because this may be a parody of its original. However, comedy without timing isn't comedy !In a June 2008 interview with The Guardian, Abel Ferrara, who directed and co-wrote the original Bad Lieutenant, said that finding out his movie was being remade was "a horrible feeling", "like when you get robbed". He also wondered how Nicolas Cage "can even have the nerve to play Harvey Keitel", and called screenwriter William M. Finkelstein an idiot. Putting in mind how the remake turned out to be, I couldn't agree more !Fairly, this is a movie that tried so seriously to be something bigger than its original, and itself, but didn't have the abilities, hence ended up as a really bad joke. Bad Lieutenant, bad movie, and - with tons of pointless remakes lately - bad Hollywood.

SnoopyStyle After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) finds a prisoner trapped in rising waters and makes fun of him. He relents and rescues him but he gets a permanent back injury in the process. He is promoted to lieutenant. His Vicodin regiment leaves him addicted. Six months later, he and Stevie Pruit (Val Kilmer) are investigating the murder of an illegal family who are small time drug dealers. His girlfriend Frankie Donnenfeld (Eva Mendes) is a drug addicted prostitute. Officer Mundt tells him that he can't steal drugs for him anymore because cameras are being installed. He robs people of their drugs and willing to break any rules or laws.It's a really fascinating character. However, the investigation gets second fiddle to this character. I find myself not following the case and unable to figure out the characters related to that. I almost want the case to be dropped. McDonagh can run around in circles while Pruit solves the case. The case simply meanders and I lose interest in the procedural. I got so bored with it that I stopped caring about the story. His personal demons are so much more interesting. I'm also fine with Cage's overacting. His character has a reason to be hyper-crazed unlike some of his other roles.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Honestly, just look at Nicolas Cage's constipated expression on the movie cover, and you have seen him throughout every scene of this movie.The story in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans" is about a police lieutenant addicted to drugs trying to hustle his way through crime and life.And with a storyline such as that the movie ended up being rather unappealing and long-dragged. This was essentially a movie about Nicolas Cage running around high on drugs with a constipated expression and trying to speak through clenched teeth.People say this was Nicolas Cage's best performance since "Leaving Las Vegas". That might be so in some opinions, but the performance level has never been that high to begin with, so it wouldn't take much to top that."Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans" was, for me, a very boring and mundane movie experience. I can't claim that i had much expectations for the movie to begin with actually.

bowmanblue Once upon a time the word 'Nicholas' and 'Cage' were something to set the box office alight. Nowadays, pretty much everything he does is laughed at. The only real enjoyment found from a Nic Cage film is us trying to guess just how low he will descend this time around. However, although Bad Lieutenant (2?) is never going to be an absolute classic, it does the job for what it is.First of all, it didn't entirely escape criticism. Its full title is 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans' and it's actually a remake of the Harvey Keitel film of the same name (minus the bit about New Orleans). Therefore, you naturally had all the original's fanbase claiming how sacred the original was and how this was a travesty and a simple cash-in rip-off. Well I guess all remakes are to a degree, but this one does its best to try and steer clear of borrowing too much from the source material. In fact, some of the production team even go as far as to say that it's not a remake, more a sequel that only borrows from the same principal.And then there's Cage himself. He's actually pretty good (again). Yes, he specialises in some overacting from time to time, but anyone who's seen him before should be used to this. He's propped up by a decent supporting cast, including Eva Mendes and Val Kilmer, but it's generally Cage's baby and he carries the film well. As the title suggests, Cage plays the titular 'Bad Lieutenant' who, despite supposedly being a man of the law, is pretty broken and frequently bends the rules, especially when he's in need of drugs (legal and otherwise).It's a bit trippy, too. You have to concentrate on what's going on and you're going to have to be okay with some more 'arty' elements, such as singing iguanas (which I loved!). I think the more 'out there' parts of the film were trying to portray Cage's slow descent into drug-induced madness.I have to confess, I haven't seen the original, so I can't compare the two. But, seeing as I haven't watched it, I quite enjoyed it – it's a tale of a man who's on a slippery path to nowhere. So, if you like your cops 'dirty' and films a little dark and whacky, don't simply write it off as yet another of Cage's 'misfires' and give it a go.