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Bad Lieutenant (1992)
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Proving that he may be the most fearless actor of his or any other generation, Harvey Keitel gives an amazing, no-holds-barred performance in director Abel Ferrara's uncompromising 1992 film about a New York cop on the edge of self-annihilation. The film's title is meant to be taken literally: Keitel's character has no redeeming values whatsoever, save for his desperate need for redemption. Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide is correct in calling this an "over-the-top Catholic guilt movie," but it's been made with such conviction that Ferrara and Keitel transcend the sheer unpleasantness of the material to give it a kind of tragic...
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Bad Lieutenant Movie Review by AJ  (6/28/2006) |
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Okay, so maybe Bad Lieutenant just isn't my cup of tea. Or maybe it's truly one of the worst, most repulsive movies ever made. Maybe it's both. Harvey Keitel plays an amoral, cocaine-snorting, sexed-up, self-indulgent, and idiotic policeman on his way to some sort of moral achievement as he works on the case of a nun who...
(complete Bad Lieutenant review by AJ)
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