Bad Lieutenant
by Abel Ferrara
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Actor: Harvey Keitel, Leonard L. Thomas, Paul Calderon, Robin Burrows, Victor ArgoDirector: Abel Ferrara
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Writer: Victor Argo
Writer: Paul Calderon
Writer: Abel Ferrara
Producer: Diana Phillips
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
Producer: Mary Kane
Writer: Zo? Lund
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Bad Lieutenant
Movie Review: A degenerate police lieutenant with no redeeming qualities
Summary: 4 Stars
'Bad Lieutenant' is about a nameless police lieutenant and his degenerate lifestyle. The movies starts with him dropping his sons off at school, then snorting coke in the school parking lot before beginning his day. The storyline is a basically loose, as far as plot, the film consists mostly of scenes of the lieutenant's degeneration. The major plot of the movie is a new crime he's assigned to; the destruction of a catholic church along with the raping of one of the nuns. (Warning - the scene is graphic) Most of the movie is taken up by highlighting the horrible habits of the nameless lieutenant.
He drinks, he smokes, he snorts cocaine, he smokes and shoots heroin, he gambles, he steals drugs from police evidence, he takes money from thieves and lets them go, he sexually harasses young girls he pulls over (another graphic scene) he gets involved in threesomes (Warning: there's a full frontal shot of Harvey Keitel that is not only unnecessary but quite disgusting - Please Harvey - it's not worth showing - put it away and keep it there) and he treats everyone, even his family, with contempt.
The nun case haunts him; she refuses to identify the men who raped her even while admitting she knows who they are. Even with all of the lieutenant's pleading she says she's forgiven them and refuses to divulge their names. The lieutenant simply cannot understand her forgiveness, and it sends him into an even deeper spiral trying to understand her. It's obvious that he's fighting with his own Catholic upbringing and rejection of his faith.
Our nameless lead character has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Long scenes are spent on his debauchery and perversions. His breakdown in the church where he finds himself wailing and pleading with a hallucination of Christ is almost, but not quite, touching. His is the bottom rung of life, the deepest of rock bottom, and the movie is very depressing for it. The ending is a little surprising. Don't expect a great movie, the photography isn't very high quality, but Keitel does a great job of acting. This is one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen, and again I must warn against the graphic nature of the film, both sexually and drug related. Still, it's worth a peek if your in the mood. Enjoy!
Summary of Bad Lieutenant
He's a gambler...a thief...a junkie...a killer and a cop. Now he is investigating the most shocking case of his life and as he moves closer to the truth his self-destructive past is closing in.System Requirements:Starring Harvey Keitel Leonard Thomas Paul Calderone Paul Hipp Victor Argo Victoria Bastel Zoe Tamerlis Directed by Abel Ferrara Running time: 96 minutes Copyright Artisan EntertainmentFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating:?NC-17 UPC:?012236114307 Manufacturer No:?11430Proving that he may be the most fearless actor of his or any other generation, Harvey Keitel gives an amazing, no-holds-barred performance in director Abel Ferrara's uncompromising 1992 film about a New York cop on the edge of self-annihilation. The film's title is meant to be taken literally: Keitel's character has no redeeming values whatsoever, save for his desperate need for redemption. Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide is correct in calling this an "over-the-top Catholic guilt movie," but it's been made with such conviction that Ferrara and Keitel transcend the sheer unpleasantness of the material to give it a kind of tragic divinity. Here's a character so vile and corrupted that he consumes or re-sells the drugs he confiscates, but when he's assigned to investigate the brutal rape of a nun who refuses to press charges, he feels that this is his opportunity to redeem his rotten soul. Deservedly rated NC-17 due to its rough content and a frontal nude scene that even Keitel's most loyal fans could do without, this film tends to divide viewers into love-it-or-hate-it categories, but few could deny its raw power and the deeply anguished humanity that Keitel brings to his role. Whatever your reaction may be, few would deny this is an unforgettable film. --Jeff Shannon
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