The Bad Lieutenant (2009) starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer. Cage plays a post-Katrina New Orleans policeman who starts out good, injures his back, becomes addicted to pain killers and various illegal drugs, and becomes a bad cop. In the course of the movie, he hallucinates singing iguanas (not as entertaining as it sounds) and loses a witness to a murder. He smokes crack and terrorizes old women. Ultimately, he goes rogue. Cage plays his role like some crazed dope fiend from Reefer Madness. Then, suddenly, all the trouble he has gotten himself into evaporates and the film has, strangely enough, a happy ending. Kilmer, billed as a co-star, barely makes an appearance. The subtitles are very poor. Grade: C-
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