Bad Lieutenant

Harvey Keitel has given us many great performances(e.g., Mean Streets, The Duellists, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Smoke), but this isn't one of them. In fact, this is more of a charicature of a charicature, and must qualify as one of Keitel's... Full review

This is one of the best movies according to "good fellows" director Martin Scorcese. I rented this movie a while back and the only memorable scene was the lieutenant beating off in front of two girls in the car.... Full review

Gritty,harsh and bleak, this is a very hard movie to watch and will offend those with tender sensibilities. Another film by Abel Ferrara (King of New York), a director similar to Scorsese who makes movies that depict the harsh and moody... Full review

This is pretty much a senseless movie and you would have to be a pretty darned demented if you actually thought that this movie meant anything. The story is a-ok and Harvey Kietel was also Mr. Wolf, a complete genius. So... Full review

I dont exactly remember why, but I have wanted to see this for quite a while now. Bad Lieutenant is an interesting movie to say the least. I was actualy expecting something much darker. I was expecting something as joyful as... Full review

I Don't know about you but im tired of seeing Harvey Keitels penis. So ya maybe he should do senior porn or something but not in a movie.... Full review

"... is a very bad movie and is just so wrong and disturbing! It looks like something made by a crazy person!"... Full review

Human beings don't come much worse than this New York City police officer, aptly played by Harvey Keitel, an actor who has never cared who he offended in any role or never backed off from a challenging role. Keitel reaches new... Full review

People are probably right enough when they comment that this entire film essentially hinges on Harvey Kietel's impassioned performance as the corrupt and deeply troubled lieutenant of the title. Which shouldn't necessarily be taken as a shortcoming - an engrossing lead... Full review

Abel Ferrara has on his hands a small masterwork of one man's existence in the doldrums, and he has such a way of dealing with "the streets" as a perpetually gritty, hellish world in a movie that I didn't disbelieve it... Full review

Ferrara's '92 "Bad Lieutenant" is steeped in Catholic guilt;....ladies and gentlemen, Nicolas Cage, at his finest.....Cage can be tiresomely crazy in some films....just when you think Herzog and company are going to play the family-crises scenes for laughs, they don't -....Herzog gives the story a melancholy and naturalistic backdrop, which makes the hallucinations all the stranger..... ... Full Review

Bad Lieutenant a Great Crazy Cage Movie....He freaks out good about 15 minutes into the movie so I'm happy..... ... Full Review

German director Werner Herzog shifts away from brooding documentaries for a stab at re-imagining Abel Ferrara 's 1992 cult classic 'Bad Lieutenant.....spite of the film's churning emotional core, has fleeting moments of black comedy.....Critics are praising Cage's performance for harnessing the intensity of his early work, and Herzog for his deliberate, playful direction.... ... Full Review

There's a deranged grandeur to Nicolas Cage's performance in "Bad Lieutenant....The sick kicks of "Bad Lieutenant" certainly aren't for everybody..... ... Full Review

With the release of the latest vampire flick Friday, one of the best movies of 2009 has been effectively thrown under the bus.....Director Werner Herzog has refuted claims....is a truly edgy crime drama that is as compelling as it is offbeat.....The gritty landscape of post-Katrina New Orleans is the perfect complement to an equally demoralized cast of characters..... ... Full Review

Is anyone else salivating at the chance to see Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans ? The improbable pairing of German auteur Werner Herzog and financially troubled space cadet Nicolas Cage is causing critics to spew all sorts of... ... Full Article

"Excuse me, Mr. Herzog. Are you married?" One veteran reporter dared to ask director Werner Herzog this perilous question during the 2009 Toronto Film Festival. ... Full Article

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the results of the Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans poster contest! I ended up with over 60 entries from all over the world. ... Full Article

In Abel Ferrara's original Bad Lieutenant (1992), Harvey Keitel plumbed the depths with his portrayal of LT, one of the dirtiest cops ever to appear on screen. ... Full Article

Holy sweet Jesus dipped in molasses. OK, I had no freakin' idea that this film was going to kick quite this much behind. But knock your ass into your shoes is exactly what happens when you take a familiar title,... ... Full Article

FROM MTV.COM: Do fish have dreams? Do they dream of ominous iguanas, perhaps? Or maybe the disembodied breakdancing souls of freshly capped gangsters? More to the point, will Nicolas Cage ever make another movie that makes sense? ... Full Article