Dir: Werner Herzog
USA 2009, 122 mins
With: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk
Reports that Werner Herzog was on board to direct a remake of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant were greeted by vigorous head-scratching, but fear not; this is one of the most entertaining and deranged movies you’ll see this year. Taking on the Harvey Keitel role in the full-blooded spirit of a man on day-release from Hollywood mediocrity, Nicolas Cage snorts, drawls and hallucinates his way down the back-alleys of post-Katrina New Orleans, pursuing a cop-thriller plot which is merely a backdrop for his own disintegration. Herzog has found himself a new Kinski.
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