… Werner Herzog’s hallucinogenic film noir features Nicolas Cage in a brilliant performance that’s almost psychotic.Photograph by: Handout, Handout
Werner Herzog’s Byzantine and hallucinogenic film noir features Nicolas Cage in a brilliant performance that’s almost psychotic. He plays a drug-addicted policeman investigating a murder while trying to protect his prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mendes). He has visions of iguanas, and in the druggy, hypnotic world, so will you.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes
Rating: Four and a half stars out of five
Werner Herzog has been involved in a lot of strange projects — he once threatened to eat his shoe if Errol Morris finished his movie about pet cemeteries, a wager whose upshot is recorded in the documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe — but turning Nicolas Cage into an iguana stands as one of his greatest cinematic achievements.

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