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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Abel Ferrara
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Actors:
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Paul Calderon,
Paul Hipp,
Leonard L. Thomas,
Frankie Thorn,
Victoria Bastel,
Robin Burrows,
Brian McElroy,
Frankie Acciarito,
Harvey Keitel,
Victor Argo
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Duration:
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96 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)83
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Plot Summary:
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A the fuzz Lieutenant goes close to his every day tasks of investigating homicides, but is more interested in pursuing his vices. He has accumulated a massive debt betting on baseball, and he keeps doubling to effort to recover. His bookies are beginning to vex agitated. The Lieutenant does copious amounts of drugs, cavorts with prostitutes, and uses his status to be involved drop of teenage girls. While investigating a nun's despoilment, he begins to reproduce on his lifestyle.
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Tags:
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Bad Lieutenant
A lurid and exploitative melange of drugs, making love, masturbation, rape and religiosity, scarcely justified around the suggestion of redemption tacked on to its climax. What does prevent it, even if it doesn't confirm it, is the constraint of Harvey Keitel's deportment.
Bad Lieutenant
"...[The mistiness] takes spirituality and morality more badly than most films do. And in the bad lieutenant, Keitel gives us limerick of the colossal camouflage performances in late-model years..."
Bad Lieutenant
"...[A] terrifyingly strong haze....Visually visceral....It's chronicle heart is palatably religious..."
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