After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) finds a prisoner trapped in rising waters and makes fun of him. He relents and rescues him but he gets a permanent back injury in the process. He is promoted to lieutenant. His Vicodin regiment leaves him addicted. Six months later, he and Stevie Pruit (Val Kilmer) are investigating the murder of an illegal family who are small time drug dealers. His girlfriend Frankie Donnenfeld (Eva Mendes) is a drug addicted prostitute. Officer Mundt tells him that he can't steal drugs for him anymore because cameras are being installed. He robs people of their drugs and willing to break any rules or laws.It's a really fascinating character. However, the investigation gets second fiddle to this character. I find myself not following the case and unable to figure out the characters related to that. I almost want the case to be dropped. McDonagh can run around in circles while Pruit solves the case. The case simply meanders and I lose interest in the procedural. I got so bored with it that I stopped caring about the story. His personal demons are so much more interesting. I'm also fine with Cage's overacting. His character has a reason to be hyper-crazed unlike some of his other roles.

Once upon a time the word 'Nicholas' and 'Cage' were something to set the box office alight. Nowadays, pretty much everything he does is laughed at. The only real enjoyment found from a Nic Cage film is us trying to guess just how low he will descend this time around. However, although Bad Lieutenant (2?) is never going to be an absolute classic, it does the job for what it is.First of all, it didn't entirely escape criticism. Its full title is 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans' and it's actually a remake of the Harvey Keitel film of the same name (minus the bit about New Orleans). Therefore, you naturally had all the original's fanbase claiming how sacred the original was and how this was a travesty and a simple cash-in rip-off. Well I guess all remakes are to a degree, but this one does its best to try and steer clear of borrowing too much from the source material. In fact, some of the production team even go as far as to say that it's not a remake, more a sequel that only borrows from the same principal.And then there's Cage himself. He's actually pretty good (again). Yes, he specialises in some overacting from time to time, but anyone who's seen him before should be used to this. He's propped up by a decent supporting cast, including Eva Mendes and Val Kilmer, but it's generally Cage's baby and he carries the film well. As the title suggests, Cage plays the titular 'Bad Lieutenant' who, despite supposedly being a man of the law, is pretty broken and frequently bends the rules, especially when he's in need of drugs (legal and otherwise).It's a bit trippy, too. You have to concentrate on what's going on and you're going to have to be okay with some more 'arty' elements, such as singing iguanas (which I loved!). I think the more 'out there' parts of the film were trying to portray Cage's slow descent into drug-induced madness.I have to confess, I haven't seen the original, so I can't compare the two. But, seeing as I haven't watched it, I quite enjoyed it – it's a tale of a man who's on a slippery path to nowhere. So, if you like your cops 'dirty' and films a little dark and whacky, don't simply write it off as yet another of Cage's 'misfires' and give it a go.

Big actors like Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Will Smith, Nicolas Cage and many others all have there good films, there OK films and there are bad films. Bad Lieutenant is one of Nicolas Cages OK films. I have never seen the original film and I only watched this only because Nicolas Cage was in it. The film is about a police lieutenant who has bad back pain and the medication from the doctor is not helping so he starts taking drugs, having sex with young fit girls on the street and mixing with the wrong kind of people. The film had its ups and downs, rocky storyline and there were parts in the film i didn't think were needed like the odd 5 minutes of stupid music and funny camera angles well staring at a lizard or a snake and even a stupid little scene after someone got killed and there soul is brake dancing right next to it's body, why did they put that in what was the point of adding this in why did they put this in, it was like they were trying to put step up 2 the streets and Bad Lieutenant together I couldn't understand why they added this. Apart from that the film was OK, the action is good, so is the acting and the story is rocky and is really slow at times. The film also stars the very hot Eva Mendes and the famous ex Batman actor Val Kilmer. I gave the film a 7/10 it was OK but could if been a lot better.

Wow. This movie is really a surprise for me! I watched it cause of boredom and the 7- score that it got really made me think of it as a ''meh'' kind of movie. Boy I was wrong. The acting on Cage's part is amazingly well synced with the ''bad cop'' attitude. I also thought that the different problems that Terence (Cage) had to solve in his hard and corrupt life were really amazing. Another positive point is that the story isn't about blue skies and sunshine, but can be quite depressing at some points, and even makes you think.All summed up: I think this is a great movie to see. Especially if you are willing to try out new unorthodox movies, you will entertain this.