Bad Lieutenant
Crime • NC-17 • 1992 • 1 hr 36 min
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Worth watching. Ain't going to change your life but entertaining enough
Crazy big performance and a wild story to match it. Fun, scary, unpredictable and disturbing
The story of a bad cop, with power that corrupts him. A gritty drama showing how great men are almost always bad men.
Such an intense performance. This movie is raw and unforgiving.
I'm sorry Harvey Keitel is fucking sexy.
Dark character study with a completely committed central performance from Harvey Keitel.
The film is convincing portrait of depravity resulting from cop burnout/corruption. But it's so visceral there's not much to think about.
There's something utterly engaging with Abel Ferera's nihilistic world-view in his films. Keitel is magnificent & the film darkly brilliant.
Keitel's notable performance carries this crude and surreal exploration of morality and catholic guilt.
Genious Harvey Keitel gives a performance of his life. Rough and visceral movie experience
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Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry: "the guy next door" and the serial killer.
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
