Yet in spite of his addiction to gross misconduct, McDonagh still believes in the job. More than that, he is the job. He has almost no life outside of his police work, though it grows more and more difficult to keep up the cop façade as every day he slips further and further into a haze of hardcore drug use. Through it all, theres the pain. Cage lurches across the screen, his stoop growing greater with each passing day as McDonaghs chronic back pain becomes immune to the constant, numbing chemicals he shoves in his body and so, he must take even more.
McDonagh winds his way through the still struggling city of New Orleans looking for murderers and dealing with the problem of crime solving by joining in on the crime committing. Hes single-minded in pursuit of whatever it is hes after at any given moment, whether its murderers or sex or drugs or momentary love. He protects his prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mendes) with the same zeal he applies towards shooting up. Its all the same to him. He lusts after everything and gets what he wants by waving his badge and threatening until everyone gives in.
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