MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

SnoopyStyle 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.

Ole Sandbaek Joergensen 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.

M MALIK when i look at new films and see young actors around the world i have no doubt they are talented as i have seen a lot of films but when it comes to good acting there is one legend i have to name him you can love him or hate him he is best the name is Nicolas Cage i have seen almost every film of him many of them are bad but the best thing is that with cage presence any project becomes awesome this one is a stand alone film its not a sequel or a remake of a 1992 film bad lieutenant i have not seen that one but it is considered one of the best films ever made.the plot:Terence Mcdonagh is a new Orleans cop who is investigating the murder of 5 immigrants from Senegal he is not the usual good cop not even a hard cop in fact he is a drug lover himself uses different methods to arrest & interrogate he gets himself involved with criminals time is running out with Terrence suffering with bad habits will he solve the mystery or losses his job the answer is in this film.this is a very different film i was expecting some serious action or suspense but there is plenty of comedy here with good dialogs that made me laugh hard the things Terrence was doing could cost him his job or worse even get jailed for life having sex on the road with another mans girlfriend using cocaine and alcohol & use verbal abuse on everyone.the cast:Eva Mendes,Val Kilmer and the rest cast did amazing job including Shea Whigham who in one scene keeps on repeating oh yeah!oh oh yeah line it was hilarious but Nicolas Cage deserves the award he was so funny with lines like shoot him again the soul is still dancing and ill kill all of you he easily stole the show.overall even if your not a Nicolas Cage fan you will still enjoy this tale of The Bad Lieutenant:Port of Call New Orleans 2009 my rating is 8/10:Recommended

alex-kirkby 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.