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Bad Lieutenant [1993]


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THE DARK SIDE
Review date: 2008-11-10 Rating: 10 out of 10

Harvey keitel's performance is simply outstanding, one of the most intense uncompromising & candid you will see from an actor in any given year. It's a travesty that keitel wasn't nominated for an Oscar for best actor that year. He dominates this film to such an extent that you don't even recall anybody elses appearance. An acting masterclass.

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EXCELLENT KEITEL IN EXCELLENT COP DRAMA
Review date: 2008-11-01 Rating: 10 out of 10

This film had its trouble when released and it is understandable, BAD LIEUTENANT is hard to watch at times but that's what makes it genius: its honest, realistic and touching, it doesn't dwell on SFX, blood, guts and gore, there are no explosions. It's great acting and great directing, psychological depth and a catching story that make this cop drama so great.

Not a happy camper
Review date: 2008-09-06 Rating: 8 out of 10

Harvey Keitel's Bad Lieutenant is a marvellously played piece of unpleasantness. He lacks any limits to his various appetites, all of which are combining to finish him off via a series of unpleasant to shocking episodes. The rape of a young nun by two youths and his own problems with a bookie combine to expose his emptiness which, since he is (well, claims to be) Roman Catholic is undoubtedly Jesus' problem. That episode (I'll not spoil the plot) is particularly affecting. The downside with Bad Lieutenant is that it is a total downer. But Keitel is astonishing as ever.

Beyond Redemption?
Review date: 2008-07-24 Rating: 10 out of 10

Sometimes your need to explore the bad. Not sugar coat it, not make it all-right-in-the-end feelgood hollywood crowd-pleasing, but take a character and a situation and follow them both through to their rightful conclusion. And make no mistake, this is totally about badness - Keitel's character is as corrupted to the core as a human being can be. And we witness it all close up. But can someone like him be ultimately redeemed? I'll leave you to find out. Be prepared to be shocked, to witness total corruption and despair, and to witness one of the best performances an actor can give. This film will take you way beyond your comfort zone - but is a tour de force of vital, raw cinema. I still shudder now when recalling it and how I felt at the ending. It doesn't come much better than this.

Low budget garbage
Review date: 2008-06-04 Rating: 10 out of 10

Lets get down to brass tacks here, this movie (shot in 28 days by Abel Ferarra and a few actors) is low buget rubbish. It is badly shot, the scenes are badly lit, and the dialogue is cancelled out by background noise). However having watched it again recently (drunk) i was pulled in by its magnetic qualities.


Harvey Keitel plays a Lieutenant who is into gambling, drugs, sex, and God only knows what else. This film wants to show the animosity of Keitels character. The film opens with Keitel taking his children to school, and we soon learn that he has strong family values, perhaps he isn't the "bad" cop that everyone is expecting.


Within 15 minutes Keitel is showing his true colours as he tries to steal a package of cocaine out of the back of a crashed car; stealing money from a grocery store owner moments after a robbery, and finally getting wasted on industrial amounts of crack cocaine and heroin while walking around his apartment naked, arms out-stretched and mewing like a sick cat; and all the while placing huge bets on the Dodgers to win the baseball series.


Suddenly, an inexplicable act of violence takes place in a church involving a young nun that makes Keitel reconsider his chosen path of life. His world gets changed all around as he tries to hunt down the criminals of this case, and also dramatically use religion to look back at the badness in his soul. Can both these criminals and Keitel be saved?


Every now and then Abel Ferrara makes a movie that kicks you in the stomach and ruptures your spleen. This is the one. Harvey Keitel gives a career-defining performance as the title character, an alcoholic, drug- and gambling-addicted, sleazebag cop pervert. His Jesus hallucination scene is almost too much to take. But then again, so is the whole of this dark, dark cheap low-budget badly made film. In a word: "Classic."

PS: Just make sure you're not sober when watching it and you would be doing yourself a favour to turn on the sub-titles.

8/10. Dr Bee Clarke

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Actor(s):
Robin Burrows
Leonard L. Thomas
Victor Argo
Harvey Keitel
Paul Calderon

Creators:
Harvey Keitel (Primary Contributor)
Victor Argo (Primary Contributor)
Victor Argo (Writer)
Paul Calderon (Writer)
Abel Ferrara (Writer)
Diana Phillips (Producer)
Edward R. Pressman (Producer)
Mary Kane (Producer)
Zoë Lund (Writer)

Director(s):

Recording label: Pathe Distribution
Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
EAN: 5060002830628
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Full Screen, PAL,
Release date: 2003-06-30
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 90 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1992-11-20
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Spanish (Original Language)

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