After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father’s dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence’s job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse.
Well I really try to not see any info about smaller films before they come out so that I can be surprised by at least a few new films that are released.
Well tuis is one of them. It to be honest has a good selection of actors in this including nicolas cage and eve Mendez. This films sees nicolas cage start as a do gooder cop who gets taken down in his prime by a jump that he never expected would be the breaking of him.
Once pas this part to shows how life has turned from good to bad and how He is now trying to fight the pain through the use of cocaine and heroin. He battles a number of problems from organised crime to self addiction to both a prostate and drugs. This film shows the balancing act of this officer and how he hands all the troubles that he has to go through.
The problems…..
Well the problems for are two fold.
1. The acting.
To be honest this film will not help anyones career as this does not really have any great acting within.
Nicolas cage
During the film he has to portay a man with a limp and that he does until he has to start moving fastly. This is to be honest something we can live with but the funniest part of his role is the accent. His accent changes in nearly every seen, I cannot decide if he is doing this manually or not as it cannot be accidental.
Eve Mendez probably plays the best role in the films and she does not have to do much to impress us as the others leave a lot to be desired.
2. The representation
This is a thriller and don’t you know about it.
But I ask one question why not a comedy. I ask because thus would of been a brilliant comedy. It had all the important comedy parts for a lethal weapon sort of comedy but I think the company aim was thriller when the film itself was screaming to be released in the comedy world.
I have slated this film the worst I have slated any film but do you know what it was one other better ones I have seen this year.
Everything brought together in a way which individually was bad as a collective made it work. To be honest work really well.
I will rate this film 9 out of 10.
Don’t ask me why but I feel like I need to watch this film again and again.
