I ♥ Nicolas Cage
Everyone gives Nicolas Cage a hard time for his movie choices in the last few years and I, too, never miss a chance to make fun of him. However, I just finished watching The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (yes, that’s the title) and I must say he was fantastic in it. This is one odd but fascinating flick about a cop’s descent into drug abuse and corruption. Cage goes completely over the top with it, as he often does, but this time it works because he’s just matching the film’s own weirdness (credit director Werner Herzog for a lot of it). At one point, after some of Cage’s goons have shot and killed a guy, he orders them to shoot him again because “his soul is still dancing,” and then you actually see the guy’s soul, breakdancing. Also, watch out for imaginary iguanas, Cage changing his accent in the middle of the movie for no apparent reason, and other assorted “WTF” moments in a film that otherwise plays it straight. Not a minute of it is boring, though, and it’s really Cage’s performance that makes it so compelling.
Recommended, if only so you can come back here and ask me what the hell was I smoking that made me like it so much.
