A number of sources online are reporting that Werner Herzog’s new film Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans will only receive a very limited release in the US late November then released to DVD/Blu-Ray Febuary 23rd 2010.

Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans has been my surprise highlight of the London Film Festival (along with The Road), hands down it is the most entertaining film I’ve seen this year. Every time you think the film is taking you somewhere it takes you in a whole other direction completely, Nicolas Cage gives his best performance in years as a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs – while playing fast and loose with the law, wielding his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way.

The movie is hilarious due to it being so zany and off the wall, the tripped out scene with the iguanas, the dancing soul scene, random alligator point of view shots, the whoa scene and when the ‘pipe’ gets verified the audience were in stitches, I can definitely see this film having a cult in years to come, I hope it gets the wide release it deserves in the UK.

Distributor: First Look Pictures
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Alvin “Xzibit” Joiner, Eva Mendes, Fairuza Balk, Shawn Hatosy, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis-Hall and Michael Shannon
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenwriter: William Finklestein
Producers: Edward R. Pressman, Nicolas Cage, Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky, Stephen Belafonte and John Thompson
Genre: Police Drama
Rating: TBD
Running time: 122 min.