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Starring:
Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon, Peggy Gormley, Frankie Thorn, Brian McElroy, Frankie Acciario, Stella Keitel, Leonard Thomas, Frankie Thorn
Directed By:
Abel Ferrara
Written By:
Abel Ferrara, Zoe Tamerlaine Lund
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Bad Lieutenant (1992)
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Movie Review by AJ 
June 28th, 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 was raped by two boys. That's all fine, there's a lot of rich emotional and moralistic subtleties that could be accomplished with that. Only director Abel Ferrara and co-writer Zoë Lund don't find any, and if they do, they're certainly keeping them to themselves. All we've got here is an exploitative piece of sludge that features many long and utterly tiresome and frustrating sequences of rock snorting, heroine shooting, masturbation, kinky sex, and a bumbling Keitel on his knees howling through his teeth like some sort of deranged coyote in what pass as the film's laughable "emotional" moments. Not to mention its sensationalistic, godawful extended sequence of the aforementioned nun getting raped doggy style. 1992 also brought with it Reservoir Dogs, a much greater film starring Keitel, who there gave one of his very best performances; here, he gives his worst. Then again, perhaps Ferrara and Lund do have some sense: After 96 excruciating minutes, they have the decency to end the thing.
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