Bad Lieutenant
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Movie Reviews of Bad Lieutenant
Movie Review: Harvey Gets His Kit Off
Summary: 3 Stars
Lieutenant (Harvey Keitel) is a bad guy. He steals drugs. He sells drugs. He does drugs. He makes book. He's in deep with the bookies. He's into weird sex. He pleasures himself while he makes two young girls perform unnatural acts during a broken taillight stop. He shows off the family jewels. If this seems to be a catalogue of bad behavior well that's what director Abel Ferrara's film felt like to me. Ostensibly, Ferrara wants us to think that Lieutenant is seeking some sort of redemption in the form of apprehending the rapists of a young nun who for some inexplicable reason has forgiven her assailants. I could accept that if Ferrara didn't have to portray her assault so graphically. Of course we are also privy to the attractive nun's examination by the Special Victims Unit. Realism or pure exploitation? You decide. What redeems this film from pure sensationalist claptrap is the towering performance of Harvey Keitel who gets deep inside the skin of an otherwise despicable human being and makes him almost palatable. His performance alone saves it from being of prurient claptrap.Movie Review: I expected better...
Summary: 3 Stars
From the director of ''Drllier Killer'' and ''King of New York''...starring Harvey Keitel...supposedly ''shocking and raw''.
Eh.
It isn't a BAD movie, per se...just not a good one, either. The religious aspect and its accompanying imagery wouldn't look out of place in ''Rosemary's Baby'' or ''The Omen'', but in a film from 1992, it comes off too obvious and cheesy. Keitel's performance has its so-aggro-it-comes-off-as-funny moments (shooting the radio,etc.) and some decent drug scenes (I'd guess the randomness of the other characters involved-especially the waifish girl junkie-is on purpose to show how the only connections he has to most people are drugs and gambling.) There are, however, some scenes that are just too overdone (the aforementioned religious imagery) and/or pointless and those are the ones that unfortunately stick out.
If you want something in a ''Taxi Driver'' or ''I Stand Alone'' vein, it's worth renting or even buying cheap/used...nowhere near as good as those two movies, though.
Movie Review: Bad Lieutenant
Summary: 3 Stars
In this movie Harvey Kietel does more drugs, drinks more alcohol, and shoots his gun while driving his police car than most criminals do in the course of their day. Harvey drops his kids off at school then does coke. He goes home and drinks. He goes and shoots heroin. Then a nun is raped and he tracks down the assailants.
This isn't a bad movie, I just wonder how he can do so much drugs and alcohol and keep his car on the road. He shoots his radio because the LA Dodgers lose baseball games (which he bet large sums of money). In the end he is shot and presumably killed. Too bad we didn't get to see a scene where his supervisor gives him his annual performance appraisal.
Movie Review: This guy had a LOT of problems
Summary: 3 Stars
From the beginning when he started snorting coke in front of his kid's school you knew this wasn't the Dick Van Dyke Show. Loses at least one star just for those noises he kept making. Gains one just for having Harvey who makes any character a little better. The scene with the two girls in the car was interesting but had the potential to be more intense. Not sure which was worse his gambling problem, his drug problem or his sexual problem. A good example of some very self destructive behavior. Not a guy I liked seeing with a gun.Movie Review: Not as good as the hype
Summary: 2 Stars
Being a fan of Harvey Keitel, I had to go with my friend's recommendation to see The Bad Lieutenant. However, I was a bit disappointed. Having seen Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, et al, I figured this one would be a good one. But it was basically an hour and a half of pervasive drug use, obsession over baseball games, and flat dialog.
Yes, I understood the idea of him being a filthy low-life who redeems himself, but it could have been written better, and it wasn't as alarming as I was led to believe. The nun rape scene was short and not terribly shocking, and the nude scene other reviewers mentioned was dull and bizarre to say the least. By the end of the movie, you'll be thoroughly tired of him making noises like a goat in heat.
Now, don't get me wrong, Harvey Keitel is an EXCELLENT actor. I LOVE his work. This one just fell a bit flat. For seedy 'underbelly of society' style shock value, I'd rather pull out "Crimes of Passion", or "Kalifornia", quite honestly. ("Crimes of Passion"'s scene with the nighstick, the cop, and the Ivory soap comment is much more vile and shocking than the nun scene here).
It does get a thumbs up for one scene near the end where he's yelling at a Jesus hallucination in the church. It's got quite a visual intensity to it. And for the ladies like myself looking forward to the "Keitel Beefcake Factor", trust me, "The Piano" was a much better bang for your buck. Harvey can polish my piano any time!