I love this movie so much

Perfectly adorable

Lack of good storyline.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

At first I found it a bit strange and disorganized, but then starting feeling that everything actually fit together and was really one big symphony music, sounds, lighting, camera angels etc.Lets just say, that Nicolas Cage plays a very strange or disillusioned detective, he is as the title tells us not a very nice man, the drugs, gambling and somewhat need of power and control seems to guide his way, mostly in a bad direction. At first I didn't get these special drug related moments, with glancing at animals and them kind of acting and showing an angle I had not discovered, it's strange but kind of a very relaxed and special part of the film.Other then that it's a rough, violent, dramatic and action packed movie, special in it's very own way. I still can't figure out exactly how I feel about it, love it or hate it, you have to decide for yourself.

Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans is not to be compared or criticized alongside Abel Ferrera's original slam dunk gutter piece. The two films are completely different animals and share nothing but the title, and the theme of a cop gone bad. Here the cop in question is Detective Terence Mcdonough (Nicolas Cage), a coke snorting, endlessly corrupt live wire with a bad back and a worse temper. He's living the down and dirty life in New Orleans with his equally strung out, whorebag of a girlfriend (Eva Mendes) and equally corrupt partner Stevie (Val Kilmer). He's one bad move away from being kicked off the force, and one bad bet away from incurring the wrath of his menacing bookie (Brad Dourif). Even so, he wades deeper into nasty, post Katrina waters, getting involved with a volatile gangster (Xzibit) and falling further down the sinkhole of drugs and debauchery that has consumed him. Cage gives some of the best work of his last decade, a tweeked out tirade of reprehensible behaviour and manic facial contortions that scare characters and the audience alike. The cast is ripe with talent, actors like Tom Bower, Michael Shannon, Jennifer Coolidge and Fairuza Balk rounding out the roster. Herzog brings his flair for all things weird to the table here, giving the film oddball characteristics in places where it could have fallen into st right crime drama. It's colourful as well, not the drab, run down New Orleans we see in some films, but bright, crazy costumes on even crazier people. Those iguanas are a nice touch too.

As the title suggests, this is an unconventional film about an unconventional police lieutenant, and it's quite hard to pin down an opinion on it because it is unlike anything I have ever seen in terms of style and story.Having seen several Nicholas Cage films, I was fully expecting to see him play his typical worldly-wise middle aged man role despite having read the synopsis (think the National Treasure [2004; 2007] and Knowing [2009]). I was surprised to see him play a completely different character and it was oddly refreshing to see him break away from his typecast. Cage is completely believable as an erratic drug addict, his odd behaviour and strange visions of iguanas (when you see the film, you'll understand) strangely draw you in to his rough, "trippy" world. The film often loses you, at points it is hard to understand how the current scene links to the previous, but that is all part of the effect. Even the supporting characters are fuzzy and it's hard to work out who is taking drugs and who isn't. The story makes sense but doesn't necessarily follow a typical linear structure; it's slow but you never feel like there's something that doesn't matter to the overall storyline. It manages to project Cage's character's decline onto every other aspect of the film in such a way that you don't really notice until the very end. It's downright bizarre.It's difficult to put your finger on whether or not this film is enjoyable, and the reasons why. If nothing else, the story is cleverly presented to perfectly depict the decline caused by addiction, and leaves you feeling fuzzy-headed yourself. A strange viewing that very much keeps you thinking once it has finished.

A very strange and not entirely satisfying movie from maverick director Werner Herzog. While it bears narrative similarity to the cult Abel Ferrera film starring Harvey Keitel, it's an entirely separate movie that looks and feels totally different. It stars Nicolas Cage as a drug-addled, out-of-his-mind detective on the track of some murderous drug dealers, but the narrative is by far the weakest part of the movie.It's rambling, insincere and at over two hours, overlong. But Herzog is one of the most interesting directors of our time, and his style does count for a lot. He also elicits a decent performance from Cage; while some might class his acting here as hammy, I think it goes beyond that to offer a touch of inspirational genius. Certainly Cage is entirely convincing as a drugged-up madman.Herzog goes on to include a handful of truly outstanding and darkly funny scenes in his film, the highlight of which is the jaw-dropping "his soul is dancing" sequence; there are other bits involving iguanas which are equally entrancing. Come the end, it's true to say that the end result is less than the sum of its components, but this film's refusal to be pigeonholed and its touches of madness make it a more than interesting curio.