Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Werner Herzog directs Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in this crime drama with tenusious links to Bad Lieutenant (1992). A policeman in New Orleans has a bad back, drug addiction, a prostitute girl friend and a gambling problem that get in the way of his investigation into the murder of an immigrant family.
As much as Herzog may deny it this is a remake and unfortunately it lacks the thematic depth of the original film with it's undercurrent of catholic guilt and redemption. Nicholas Cage has been getting a bit of a reputation for turning terrible performances in bad films lately but this is actually a decent effort from him and the film is fairly good even if it is not on par with the original. Where I do have a problem with this film is it's weak ending, despite the best efforts of a degenerate protagonist and events closing in on him some how we end up with a ridiculously out of place happy ending.
3/5 not bad but the original is a vastly better film and study of self destruction.
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