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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNo one is better at this kind of performance than Nicolas Cage. He's a fearless actor. He doesn't care if you think he goes over the top. If a film calls for it, he will crawl to the top hand over hand with bleeding fingernails.
- 91Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBad Lieutenant doesn't go where you expect, but it has a stubborn, trippy logic.
- 80Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesHerzog deserves the lion's share of the credit for the movie's quality, but Port of Call New Orleans is also a comeback for Cage.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThere is a lot of very black humor; and it develops, somewhat surprisingly, into something suggesting a kind of cheerful pessimism.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliComparisons to the original Bad Lieutenant are unnecessary; Port of Call New Orleans can stand - and fall - on its own merits, inconsistent though they may be.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichCage is not quite Aguirre or Fitzcarraldo in the Big Easy. But his performance hits all the right mythopoetic beats, rising above the thin script and late-night-cable aesthetic.
- 50PremierePremiereThose expecting a return to the depravity and menace of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 notorious original will be disappointed.
- 50VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyThe film is offbeat, silly, disarming and loopy all at the same time, and viewers will decide to ride with that or just give up on it, according to mood and disposition.
- 50New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinIf there’s a sure thing in movies, it’s that if you cast Nicolas Cage in a role in which he goes crazy, he’ll rise to the occasion and keep on rising until he seems even loonier than his character.
- 50Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanInstead of plumbing the depths of spiritual degradation, Herzog's movie is--largely due to Cage's performance--almost fun.