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Bad Lieutenant [DVD] [1993]

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  • Actors: Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon, Leonard L. Thomas, Robin Burrows
  • Directors: Abel Ferrara
  • Writers: Abel Ferrara, Zoë Lund
  • Producers: Diana Phillips, Edward R. Pressman, Mary Kane, Patrick Wachsberger, Randy Sabusawa
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English, Spanish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Aug. 2003
  • Run Time: 87 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008OP5I
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 19,347 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt cop tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

Review

Keitel gives the bravest performance of his career --Radio Times --This text refers to an alternate DVD edition.

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Format: Blu-ray
superb film, much more ra and real than the nick cage versions. harvey keitel is marvellous; corrupt in every sense and so depleted he has lost all dignity. very blue and sometimes shocking. not for the feint hearted.
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Sometimes your need to explore the bad. Not sugar coat it, not make it all-right-in-the-end feelgood hollywood crowd-pleasing, but take a character and a situation and follow them both through to their rightful conclusion. And make no mistake, this is totally about badness - Keitel's character is as corrupted to the core as a human being can be. And we witness it all close up. But can someone like him be ultimately redeemed? I'll leave you to find out. Be prepared to be shocked, to witness total corruption and despair, and to witness one of the best performances an actor can give. This film will take you way beyond your comfort zone - but is a tour de force of vital, raw cinema. I still shudder now when recalling it and how I felt at the ending. It doesn't come much better than this.
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Harvey keitel's performance is simply outstanding, one of the most intense uncompromising & candid you will see from an actor in any given year. It's a travesty that keitel wasn't nominated for an Oscar for best actor that year. He dominates this film to such an extent that you don't even recall anybody elses appearance. An acting masterclass.
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This is Kietel at his best. Great movie, very bleak and a film that has themes of redemption spilling out of its ears. Wonderful take on addiction. The meltdown of the cop is incredibly well done. A stunning film.
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Keitel turns in what might be his best-ever performance in this monstrously ugly tale of moral corruption. There's no easy moment in the 90 minutes of this film. It veers from bad to worse to despair, charting the downfall of a corrupt cop who revels in every addiction going.
Watching Bad Lieutenant wasn't an entirely enjoyable experience -- although the film-making is to be applauded alongside Keitel's jaw-dropping depiction of a man on the brink. The spiral into awfulness makes for grim viewing, however. It's also one of those films with a paper-thin plot: the action is almost entirely character driven and bounces from one isolated scene to another with little to connect them apart from the self-destructive urges of the central character. The filming is remarkable, too, full of murky stairwells. peeling paint and dark corridors shot in a realistic manner. Sometimes, though, the viewer isn't entirely sure what is real and what is an hallucination.

UK viewers may struggle a little to understand what's going on with the baseball games (and these form a core of the story as they are what the cop is gambling on). You shoudl also check that you're getting a modern DVD with the extras and full-screen film. We saw an older version and had to watch it shrunk within goalposts, and the sound quality was desperate on that version.

Also, be aware that this film is extremely explicit in the sex, drugs and, erm, sex n drugs departments.
Not nice in the slightest, but very impressive film-making.
8/10
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Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
I love this film and was delighted when I heard there was a Blu-Ray release on the way. Unfortunately it's rubbish. The print is ok and there are no scrathes or other image issues but it's really really dark! Some of the night scenes are unwatchable as you literally can't see the actors faces! I am into my home cinema so have my TV set up to be nice and bright and any other films I have look great so it's not my TV. I have a DVD copy of this film and it is so much better, nice and bright and the night scenes are fine so it's definetly a problem with the BD version.
Very annoyed that this has turned out so bad.
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By Charles Vasey TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 6 Sept. 2008
Format: DVD
Harvey Keitel's Bad Lieutenant is a marvellously played piece of unpleasantness. He lacks any limits to his various appetites, all of which are combining to finish him off via a series of unpleasant to shocking episodes. The rape of a young nun by two youths and his own problems with a bookie combine to expose his emptiness which, since he is (well, claims to be) Roman Catholic is undoubtedly Jesus' problem. That episode (I'll not spoil the plot) is particularly affecting. The downside with Bad Lieutenant is that it is a total downer. But Keitel is astonishing as ever.
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Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
Searing performance from Keitel which is worth the price of admission on it's own, let down a bit by the bluray transfer. Maybe I've just come to expect too much of the format and this is the best that could be done with this underfunded budget film?
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