New Orleans Escorts: Bad Lieutenant unleashes Nicolas Cage
December 4, 2009
The humor takes awhile to manifest itself. Cage plays Terence McDonagh (an homage to his Raising Arizona role, H.I. McDunnough?), an arrogant New Orleans cop who injured his back while helping a prisoner escape the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. In the spirit of “No good deed goes unpunished,” his selfless act earns him a promotion to lieutenant as well as chronic pain that feeds an addiction to Vicodin, cocaine, and anything else he can get his hands on. At work, he investigates a brutal murder of a Senegalese family by drug kingpin Big Fate (Xzibit).
Bad Lieutenant’s suspense lies not in whether Terence will solve the crime, but in how many ways he’ll abuse his authority or otherwise screw the pooch. At one point, he tells his cokehead prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mendes), “I snorted what I thought was coke. Turned out it was heroin. I gotta be at work in an hour.” (Haven’t we all had days like that?) Once he starts to hallucinate iguanas, the titled reality evokes David Lynch’s livelier noir films.
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