Bad Lieutenant

‘Bad Lieutenant’ doesn’t fit into the ‘World’ category of cinema, but it was directed by Indie auteur Werner Herzog, so I think you can let me off.

In this film Nicolas Cage plays a rogue cop who’s investigating a vicious gangland murder.

This would be a relatively straight forward case if he didn’t have an insatiable appetite for hard drugs, a gambling addiction which is spiraling out of control and a prostitute girlfriend who seems to attract trouble wherever she goes.

This is Cage’s best performance in a long time. So much so, you can almost forgive him for some of the dross he’s appeared in over the last few years.