I once doubted Werner Herzog's ability to bring the uncut, Abel Ferrara crazy with BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS. Good god almighty, was I ever full of shit.
"Shoot him again. His soul is still dancing." To everyone who's been tearing into Nicolas Cage over the last few years for sleepwalking through stuff like NATIONAL TREASURE and BANGKOK DANGEROUS: feel free to write the man a heartfelt apology in the below talkback. Looks like he just won his second Oscar. No, I'm not kidding.
The only question now is "How will this not be the best film of 2009?" AVATAR might fuck your eyeballs. BAD LIEUTENANT's gonna put iguanas on your coffee table.
