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Bad Lieutenant – Port of Call New Orleans –

The easiest fiction film of Werner Herzog’s to follow. It’s not even close.

It’s also one of the most fun. Nic Cage (who seems to be in a race with Samuel L. Jackson to overtake Michael Caine as the most distinguished actor with a horrid resume) is positively operatic as the titular Bad Lieutenant. I don’t think that his mania is restrained from other Cage films, but it has a context of crazy – between Iguana-Cam and the Break-Dancing-Soul, it’s not as if he’s placing anything greater than 3rd.

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