Ferrara uses the tension of the last four games, reflected on blaring radios and TVs, to parallel the Lieutenant’s crisis of conscience. Imagine him in Apocalypse Now. like i said, like the shape, but not the button, coating, cable and weight.

While Bad Lieutenant is about redemption for even the most degenerate people, Port of Call, when it references Bad Lieutenant, completely does away with the category of redemption.

With Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer. Yeah my friend told me he had only seen the sequel when I was talking to him about it and he said it was absolutely crazy, I was surprised to see that it's a Herzog film when I looked it up. There are no shot for shot recreations that I can remember. EDIT: Just to clarify, I fucking love this movie. For many filmgoers, the only rating more disreputable than NC-17 is G, as in gag me. But Herzog's version is not a remake. It's a world where there's absolutely nothing to stop you from being high all the time -- in fact, there's every reason to be high all the time. The.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR0-i2icZPg. Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Abel Ferrara.The film stars Harvey Keitel as the titular "bad lieutenant" as well as Victor Argo and Paul Calderón.. I honestly don't know. Instead of booking the rapists, he drives them to the Port Authority Bus Terminal and puts them on a bus with a cigar box containing the $30,000. Never been much of a Herzog fan. I'm sure there are a few others, but it's been a while since I've seen either.

But the film, whatever its flaws, has an undeniable morality. With the help of the woman, the Lieutenant tracks the two rapists to a nearby crack den in Spanish Harlem and cuffs them together. Keitel is redeemed through his sacrifice for the nun rapists, but the attempt to redeem Cage by the fellow he rescues from the flooded jail falls totally flat. The Lieutenant, a lapsed Catholic, is filled with rage. What do people think this film is? But in Port of Call, there's only the high. Bad Lieutenant is packing an NC-17, a rating invented in 1990 allegedly to remove the X stigma from serious films and still protect moviegoers seventeen and under. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. After dropping off his two young sons at Catholic school, an unnamed NYPD police lieutenant (Harvey Keitel) uses cocaine and drives to the scene of a double murder in The Bronx. On one hand, it's so trashy, that so-bad-it's-good quality, that I think it is just a drama gone wrong.