Motion Picture Purgatory: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Steve Barton   |  

Dec 3, 2009

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We know it’s not exactly horror, but when Trembles speaks, we listen! And when Werner Herzog directs Nicolas Cage, we can’t help but watch transfixed.

Here’s a quick synopsis of the flick: Terence McDonagh (Cage) is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants. With a cast that also includes Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes, Jennifer Coolidge, Fairuza Balk, Brad Dourif, and Michael Shannon, what’s not to love?

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