No. 58 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) 33 of 100
This Werner Herzog film is unrelated to the Harvey Keitel offering, apart from the same title, sans the New Orleans suffix. I don’t know if there was a plan to do films about various bad lieutenants in different jurisdictions but it was a strange title choice if not – I’m guessing they were hoping for some brand recognition. Nicholas Cage stars as the titular flatfoot who, when the film opens, is a sergeant in the New Orleans police department. It’s 2005 and Hurricane Katrina has just hit. Cage rifles through a colleague’s locker with his partner Val Kilmer and, after pocketing some saucy Polaroids, finds some arrest papers that suggest someone may still be in the flooded cells. They go to check, and find the prisoner struggling with rising water in his cell. After debating whether to save the soon to be drowning perp and ruining his good pants, Cage jumps in to save him. This good deed does indeed ruin his fancy underwear and hurts his back, but at least he gets promoted t...