Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans' makes excellent use of the 'crazy' aspects of Nicolas Cage's public persona; in a film with only marginal relation to the 1992 'Bad Lieutenant' staring Harvey Keitel. Set in post Katrina New Orleans, Cage plays Terence McDonagh, a cop with a rising career and rising drug problem, who gets his hands caught in multiple escalating plot threads. Directed by Werner Herzog the film contains some notably Herzogian moments, but really the film is both Cage's, and the cities, which plays an important role and in a way is a character in the film. This movie went in ways I was not expecting and was just a joy to watch. While it may take a bit to get into the rhythm of the thing, once you do just go with it and it's a fun, wild ride. An unexpected ***1/2.