A man without a gun is not a man
- Nicolas Cage’s character Terrence McDonagh in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans after his gun is taken away by fellow cops for misbehavior with an old woman.
Darn, sometimes we make the stupidest moves.
Like for instance, not watching Nicolas Cage’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans in the theater.
We watched the previews of the movie at one of the Ritz theaters in Philadelphia and found it very appealing.
But for some reason that eludes us now we ultimately never saw the flick (did the movie even get a wide release here) on the big screen.
Instead, we went and watched tons of junk movies like Paiyaa, My Name is Khan, Kedi, Veer, Varudu, Pravarakyudu, Goa, Arya 2 et al.
What’s wrong with us.
Mucho stupid, right.
So when we learned this morning that RedBox (the $1 DVD rental kiosk in the U.S.) had released the movie, we hotfooted over to the nearest kiosk for our Cage fix.
To all the desis here who think $1 is a buck too much and would rather wait for the ‘Free RedBox Code,’ the movie also features the Hollywood sizzler Eva Mendes.
Update:
We finished watching the 2-hour movie a short while ago.
Wow!
Doesn’t that single word say it all, schmucks.
You need more? Well, here you go.
If this is not Nicolas Cage’s finest performance, could any of ye dodos please let us know of any better.
Non-Pareil Cop
Cage plays a New Orleans cop Terrence McDonagh in the aftermath of Katrina.
But the hurricane itself, destructive as it was, is really not relevant to the movie at all. Merely, the starting point of the movie when we see a flooded lockup in a police station, a snake slithering in the water and a nervous prisoner petrified at the swiftly rising water. Even as his colleagues are willing to abandon the guy behind bars, Sergeant Terrence jumps into the water, his $55 fine underwear notwithstanding.
The reward – a chronic back pain and promotion to lieutenant.
Of course, Cage is the bad lieutenant Terrence McDonagh (just promoted from sergeant at the start), the anti-hero of the fast-paced movie.
As the coke-snorting, gambling addict, crooked cop in love with his hooker girl-friend Frankie (Eva Mendes) and willing to yank the the oxygen tubes of an old woman to extract information on a key eyewitness to a bloody murder, Nicolas Cage’s performance as the forever-high cop in Bad Lieutenant is nothing short of brilliant. Continue reading »
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