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In Werner Herzog's new film Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans,
Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he
is to scoring drugs while playing fast and loose with the law. He
wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he becomes a high-functioning
addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the
beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating
his tumultuous life is the prostitute he loves (played by Eva Mendes)
and together they descend into their own world marked by desire,
compulsion, and conscience. The result is a singular masterpiece of
filmmaking: equally sad and manically humorous.
- Nicholas Cage At Long Last Returns To His
Roots--Bad Lieutenant:Port of Call New Orleans with Werner Herzog
We all know the Nicholas Cage of recent years who seemingly has made
one hackneyed movie after another just to indulge yet another big pay
check and spending spree. Those of us who had been following him from
the beginning, who loved his quirky indie films with offbeat directors,
were horrified at what he'd become. Now he has teamed with the ultimate
indie, offbeat director, Werner Herzog, to reclaim his roots. I believe
that both Herzog and Cage have made a movie that is an extended
metaphor about post Katrina New Orleans. Cage IS that post Katrina
beleaguered city. He starts out the film injured and heroic and then zig
zags through the rest of the film exhibiting the behavior of a post
traumatic stress disorder patient who is untreated, like such a soldier
from Vietnam or Iraq. For Herzog's part, he's always been about imagery
and metaphors and he doesn't disappoint here in rendering the ultimate
imagery and metaphor for post Katrina New Orleans. This is a very
different movie from Abel Ferrara's movie starring Harvey Kietel set in
New York. That film was a true character study of a really bad cop who
worked for the NYPD. It was also excellent but very different from this
film. Is Cage Herzog's new alter ego Klaus Kinski (his late leading
man)? I doubt it. Although the two are an excellent pairing, Kinski
and Herzog were a one off as a movie making team.
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