Cage plays Terence McDonagh, an unhinged Big Easy policeman, operating in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, who has performed the legitimately heroic act of saving a prisoner when the levees broke and has thus won a medal.
But he also injured his back during the daring rescue and then became addicted to pain pills. Soon he was hooked on coke, smack, weed, and crack, to say nothing of booze and betting. The whole shebang.
His girlfriend is a prostitute played by Eva Mendes, and his already questionable moral judgment, such as it is, is further impaired when he and his partner (Val Kilmer) come into contact with a notorious drug dealer (the rapper Xzibit) who is responsible for murdering a family of illegal Senegalese immigrants as part of a drug-related vendetta.
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