Bad Lieutenant

Awful, awful movie. No real plot. No characters to empathize with at all. Just a series of pointless disturbing images. What makes it worse is that there is apparently no reason for what it happening. It doesn't seem like a situation coming to a head. Rather it is like the film makers decided that they were going to come up with a title and make a movie about it. And that they did.

This movie is kind of dumb, like a slideshow of shocking scenes just to be shocking. Keitel's demons are not really clear other than his hatred of Catholicism. His * scene is pasted in and pointless, and the rape scenes are over the top. The first half of the title says it all.

Morally corrupt, drug addict, sex addict, gambler etc, etc. I love Keitel normally but this is so over-acted and over the top that I can't be positive.

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. All I saw was a bunch of drug using and violence. No point whatsoever to this film. Don't bother wasting your time watching this. 1 out of 10

Bad Lieutenant, that also describes the quality of the movie: Bad! I can not understand the high ratings of others. A thriller has to be exciting! It was hard to keep up with 96 minutes of pure boredom. The lead actor Harvey Keitel is constantly drugged, goes to church, drives car and makes gambling debts. That was (almost) the whole story, except the end. The remake of 2009 with Nicolas Cage was better.

This can be a very hard movie to take if you are not totally prepared, this movie will hit you like a ton of brick,, like a shockwave, graphic nudity, male and female. people shooting up drugs in various ways,, nuns getting raped , gambling, murder, scenes in a catholic church that will make you cringe.. Harvey Keitel gives probably the best performance of his career in this movie,, although personally i could have done without the frontal nudity,, but hey other than that , i liked the movie,, this is one definitely not for the kiddies. A Homicide detective sees the mean st's of Brooklyn and Manhattan everyday and well you start to see the effect it is taking on him,, he is working on a case where two nuns from the Catholic Church get raped. he sees degradation every day on the job,, he drinks,, does drugs,, pulls over teenage girls and well,, we'll just let you see,, anyway a pretty good character study here. excellent movie.