About 10 years ago I was new to Hollywood and I was still Starstruck whenever I saw any celebrity from A to Z. One day I was driving down Fairfax from the Beverly Center and I was heading in my car to the 10 freeway. I stopped at a light next to a Bentley and looked over and saw Nick Cage behind the wheel smoking a cigarette. I stared at him because I was a HUGE fan back then. He just looked at me as if I was crazy and just rolled up the smoked glass window. I probably would have done the same but it didn’t change how I felt about Cage's talent.
His choice of movies however has been poor and based on his recent financial issues we now know why.
1992's Bad Lieutenant is a classic masterpiece that stared Harvey Keitel. It’s Keitel’s best performance and he pretty much bares his sole and everything else in this Oscar worthy performance. For me it is one of my favorite baseball movies, I am SERIOUS and I re watch it every year during the World Series. You got to rent it to understand.
2009 Bad Lieutenant Port of Call with Cage has nothing to do with the first movie other than a cop who can’t fight his demons.
Cage stars as Terence McDonagh, a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
You will see an actor portraying a cop throughout this movie and you will ask yourself “Is that Val Kilmer?” and it is! Val looks as if he lost some lbs. and he plays a serious role. Yeah ICEMAN!
I never liked Eva Mendes because I feel she is not talented, PERIOD. In this movie she doesn’t say much which makes you focus on how extraordinarily beautiful this woman really is. I had no idea prior because they gave too much to say in her past roles and all I wanted her to do was shut-up.
Verdict: Cage is slowing coming back to his groove. At times there were flickers of his past crazy manic performance from 1988's Vampires Kiss where Cage thinks he really is a vampire. It’s a another cult classic and if you hate Cage for all the bombs he has made in the last few years you may end up liking him again after seeing Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans.
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