Deep ?, Disturbing probably, but I think your more likely to change the channel or fall asleep. Just watched this with my wife, honestly a waste of time. I have read others comments and maybe if you are into drudge, horrible characters and depression then this may interest you. Otherwise if you see anything positive about life or just like to watch decent acting and directing, then stay far way from this piece of garbage.Basically pretty much a single character movie, plays a nasty guy, then all of a sudden realizes he is a nasty guy.Goes down hill from there with a horrible piece of acting ( IMHO) over acted. There is very very little to like about this movie. I learned nothing, the character did not touch me in any way.Towards then end was dying to just change the channel, then thank god it just ended.

I was looking for the link on the IMDb and I have found out that I have seen a modern reproduction of it with Nicolas Cage: The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009) At first I didn't want to watch it but when I saw my 8/10 score for the 2009 version, now I really want to see it! I wonder if the original will be as good as the remake.3 minutes - LOL I already love it! That's gonna be a wild movie... I can feel it.12 minutes - I love watching BAD alpha males doing what they do best, probably because I am such a wimp... + they spare nothing... and show everything, big kudos for the honesty 34 minutes - this movie makes the remake look like a cartoon for kids... definitely more raw and rough 1h 17minutes - there are more drugs in this flick than in Requiem for a Dream (2000) lol Damn... what a weird movie... I wasn't even bored for one minute but I don't know... I think it was pretty average... Maybe it's because of how old it is (almost 23 years) but I have seen even older ones and I loved them; Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). I can only imagine how controversial it must have been back in a day... some of the scenes were really harsh.tgchan's rating: 6/10

This film was designed to have a lot of impact, and it does. It makes you want to vomit--I don't mean that in a bad way, exactly.... It starts with a recording of a NYC sports talk-show host venting rage at how the Mets will throw the Series, and that stupid rage is the only explanation given for Hervey Keitel's beyond-damnation cop. Keitel's character fits the old stereotype of NYC cops--before their Stop & Frisk effectiveness--perfectly. He alternates between doped-up-but-alert, and doped-to-the-gills. (SPOILERS COMING) In the latter frame of mind, he blearily investigates a nun-rape crime, hoping to collect $50,000, to help pay off gambling debts. After eavesdropping on the nun refusing to name her assailants (kids she knows) to her confessor, he decides to persuade her to tell him their names using the standard guilt trips, but she refuses--she says she forgives them. After she runs away, he sinks howling to his knees, hallucinates the incarnate Christ and 'repents' that he didn't mean to be bad, just has a weak will. Miraculously, the perp identities are given to him; he groggily shows mercy rather than collect the reward; and he gets gunned down in the predictable end to the film.Good film??? On the plus side, Keitel is cast perfectly, and the film is striking. Minus: I laughed pretty often at how pointlessly over-the-top it was, Keitel's performance and everything else. He displays only two expressions the whole film: stolid and dopey. There are limits to how much acting skill you can show playing a doped-up character--almost as bad as playing a corpse. There's no motivation for his character, especially the mercy he shows at the end--there couldn't be. No other actor has a part with more than one dimension. Midway through the film, Keitel stops two young (?) women from New Jersey and harasses them crudely; the women claim to be teenagers driving without their father's permission but look like 30-year-old whores (and one of them plays a "whore who knows what's coming" pretty well; the other is just silly). The whole episode is silly--Keitel is much less brutal than seasoned filmgoers will expect, for no apparent reason. But the rest of the film compensates for this mild segment by rehashing crudities without limit or purpose.Why give it even a 6? I'm not sure--craven conformity to other reviewers? It is a sort of archetype of scumbucketry. I think you have to look at the film sardonically, as a scornful portrayal of (Catholic) faith, repentance, and resolve to do good. The only thing worse is lapsed faith, disbelief, and materialism. What a choice.

Harvey Keitel pulls out all the stops in an audacious, brave performance. Playing a corrupt, heavily multiple substance-abusing cop in NYC, he is one tortured soul, hell-bent in an inferno of decadence, neglect and self-destruction. The case of a nun's rape (in church, no less!)draws him in, though, suggesting a chance of salvation.Plays and feels like a leftover, heavy and dark Scorsese piece, replete with catholic symbolism of guilt and repentance. Still a strong, effectively gritty experience with one genius stroke that adds an unexpected, looming pitch of suspense: Having Keitel's character following the world series of baseball playing in the background, on which he keeps playing a high-stake money betting battle.5 out 10 from Ozjeppe.