At least McDonagh, unlike Keitel’s “Bad Lieutenant,” has a reasonable excuse for being all bent out of shape, figuratively and literally. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he suffers a debilitating back injury when he jumps into a flooded jail to rescue a prisoner from drowning in a locked cell. The resulting pain is so excruciating that McDonagh plows through the rest of “Port of New Orleans” at a tilt, his posture twisted right along with his ethics, and doing everything he can to numb his gaunt self.
Packing his huge handgun in the front of his belt, Terrence has a girlfriend (Eva Mendes) who’s a prostitute; a multiple, drug-related homicide that he’s know is the work product of a powerful kingpin, street name Big Fate (played well by the rapper Xzibit) in the white-powder trade; and all kinds of problems with his bookie (Brad Dourif), alcoholic father (Tom Bower), and drunken stepmother (Jennifer Coolidge).

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