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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
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BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

Directed by Werner Herzog
United States, 2009
Crime, Drama, Thriller

Synopsis

After Hurricane Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurting his back in the process. He earns a promotion to lieutenant but develops an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, Terence is assigned a case investigating the drug-related killing of a family.

Synopsis

After Hurricane Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurting his back in the process. He earns a promotion to lieutenant but develops an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, Terence is assigned a case investigating the drug-related killing of a family.

Our take

Eyebrows were raised when Werner Herzog announced he was reimagining Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant. How do you top that perverse classic? Leaving the original far behind, Herzog ecstatically mounts a frenzied operatic fantasia, with a lead—in Nicolas Cage—on thunderous, unforgettable form.