Media Mayhem

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans stars Nicholas Cage and Eva Mendes. The story takes place in the ravaged city of New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. As you can probably tell from the title of the movie, Terence McDonagh (Nicholas Cage) is a crooked cop who does everything and anything in his power for personal gain. A drug user, gambler, and womanizer are just a few adjectives that describe Detective McDonagh.

Married to a prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mendes), McDonagh even uses her to shake down customers for drugs after they have completed their transaction. As the movie progresses, McDonagh gets more into gambling debt and more in trouble with the New Orleans police department for various incidents with civilians. There's nothing that surprises you about this character by the time this movie is over. Even things like cutting off a old woman's air supply to get some information are common occurrences.

The majority of this movie was slow and dull with a few scattered moments of action and excitement. Since McDonagh is high on drugs, random vodooish incidents will occur that make you feel like you're on crack (not that I know). If I wanted to watch a Cage stumble around on the verge of a drug induced coma mumbling random things, I would have just rented his biography from the video store.

Grade: C-