Drama, Rated R (2009)
Terence (Cage) is a police officer who injures himself on the job and partakes in a pill popping, drug dependent, corrupt lifestyle in which he crosses all kinds of lines and stops as nothing to keep up his habit.
- This is indeed the story of a bad Lieutenant. A very bad Lieutenant indeed. This guy was dirty and had no qualms about breaking any and every rule in the book.
- From the very beginning you can already tell that this cop is a loose cannon but we see so little of him before his injury that it isnt' clear to me if he was always so corrupt and dirty or if the onset of his injury steered him in that direction.
- He and his "girlfriend" Frankie (Mendes) share some kind of strange co dependent relationship involving the sharing of drugs and a suspect way of keeping up their lifestyle.
- It was interesting to see a metamorphosis of sorts occur in Frankie and equally sad to see that it does not appear that Terence intends to follow suit.
- If this were a cliche fairy tale movie he and Frankie would end up happily ever after but life unlike movies often is not a fairy tale and this story tells us so.
- Nicolas Cage was amazing of course. He played the role of this deranged out of control Lieutenant to perfection. I have always been a huge fan and he did not disappoint.
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