Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans. 2009.
Nicolas Cage is the Police Lieutenant, after suffering a back injury and becoming addicted to pain meds and then going to stronger drugs, gets into some gambling debt while trying to solve a murder.
I'm sure we all saw the 1992 Abel Ferrara Bad Lieutenant that seemed a bit darker and near violent and shows corruption within the police. Werner Herzog takes the director's chair for this and doesn't really disappoint the audience. Nic Cage manages to act well in this and his character isn't shy about abusing his position within the police due to the state of what's in his system he tends to be unbalanced in life along with his girlfriend Eva Mendes who is a prostitute and causes more problems.
I went into this one blind and to be honest I actually enjoyed it, right from the start we are thrown in with Nic and Val Kilmer teasing a guy that's just about drowning getting meds then jump to 6 months later. Werner manages to keep the pace of the film fast but not too fast and and small role by Fairuza Balk who could have been given a bo=it more screen time to show off her body a bit more.
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