Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

2009 · 122 min · EN · R · 6.2 (1,326 votes)

Dir. Werner Herzog · Starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Xzibit, Fairuza Balk, Shawn Hatosy · Music Mark Isham

“The only criminal he can't catch is himself.”

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Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.

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This is a descent into a feverish, drug-addled New Orleans underworld. It feels like a chaotic, darkly humorous odyssey through moral decay, where the lines between right and wrong blur into a hallucinatory haze. Expect a relentless, unsettling journey through a protagonist's unraveling mind amidst a city's brokenness.

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