Bad Lieutenant

Bad Lieutenant


Starring:Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon, Leonard L. Thomas, Robin Burrows, Frankie Thorn, Victoria Bastel, Paul Hipp, Brian McElroy, Frankie Acciarito, Peggy Gormley, Stella Keitel, Dana Dee, Anthony Ruggiero, Vincent Laresca, G. Elvis Phillips, Stephen Chen, Shawn McClean, John Steven Jones, Fernando Véléz
Director: Abel Ferrara
Studio: Live / Artisan
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Proving that he may be the most fearless actor of his or any other generation, Harvey Keitel gives an amazing, no-holds-barred performance in director Abel Ferrara's uncompromising 1992 film about a New York cop on the edge of self-annihilation. The film's title is meant to be taken literally: Keitel's character has no redeeming values whatsoever, save for his desperate need for redemption. Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide is correct in calling this an "over-the-top Catholic guilt movie," but it's been made with such conviction that Ferrara and Keitel transcend the sheer unpleasantness of the material to give it a kind of tragic divinity. Here's a character so vile and corrupted that he consumes or re-sells the drugs he confiscates, but when he's assigned to investigate the brutal rape of a nun who refuses to press charges, he feels that this is his opportunity to redeem his rotten soul. Deservedly rated NC-17 due to its rough content and a frontal nude scene that even Keitel's most loyal fans could do without, this film tends to divide viewers into love-it-or-hate-it categories, but few could deny its raw power and the deeply anguished humanity that Keitel brings to his role. Whatever your reaction may be, few would deny this is an unforgettable film. --Jeff Shannon
Bad Lieutenant
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Bad is hardly the word for it
  • Not as good as the hype
  • Keitel's best performance
  • I expected better...
  • Great Cop Flick!
Bad Lieutenant
Starring: Harvey Keitel , Victor Argo , Paul Calderon , Leonard L. Thomas , and Robin Burrows
Director: Abel Ferrara
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
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ASIN: B00005OM6L
Release Date: 2001-08-14

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Proving that he may be the most fearless actor of his or any other generation, Harvey Keitel gives an amazing, no-holds-barred performance in director Abel Ferrara's uncompromising 1992 film about a New York cop on the edge of self-annihilation. The film's title is meant to be taken literally: Keitel's character has no redeeming values whatsoever, save for his desperate need for redemption. Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide is correct in calling this an "over-the-top Catholic guilt movie," but it's been made with such conviction that Ferrara and Keitel transcend the sheer unpleasantness of the material to give it a kind of tragic divinity. Here's a character so vile and corrupted that he consumes or re-sells the drugs he confiscates, but when he's assigned to investigate the brutal rape of a nun who refuses to press charges, he feels that this is his opportunity to redeem his rotten soul. Deservedly rated NC-17 due to its rough content and a frontal nude scene that even Keitel's most loyal fans could do without, this film tends to divide viewers into love-it-or-hate-it categories, but few could deny its raw power and the deeply anguished humanity that Keitel brings to his role. Whatever your reaction may be, few would deny this is an unforgettable film. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Bad is hardly the word for it.......2007-06-29

Probably no cop ever sunk so low as Harvey Keitel's New York police lieutenant. He is the very personification of corruption and hypocrisy. Addicted to every street drug of note, heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, which he both snorts and main lines. He chugalugs vodka. He neglects his family, his children. He consorts with prostitutes, two at a time. He goes to crime scenes to steal the drugs or the money. He takes bribes and stops young female drivers and shakes them down for sex.

He is a Catholic that considers the church a racket. He is a cop who solves no crimes, who lets the criminals go free if they pay him. He corrupts not only himself but the entire system of criminal justice. He is appetite incarnate.

But what does him in is his betting on baseball games. It is the year the Mets came from three games down to win the National League championship, and he bet against the Mets. With play by play in the background in scene after scene we are reminded forcibly that the outcome of baseball games is one thing he cannot control, something that he cannot corrupt, and perhaps that is why he bets on the games.

Abel Ferarra's portrait of a man turbo'ed toward hell is one of the better films I have seen recently. It is uncompromising in its cynicism. Keitel's performance is strident and intense, all consuming and depraved. He is a muscle, an artery that throbs. He is a man who will never be satisfied, who will never be fulfilled. His is the very antithesis of the nun who is raped and forgives those who rape her. She is fulfilled with the love of Jesus. But he cannot believe--or rather, what is worse, his belief is corrupted. In the end we see that he does believe in Jesus and the saints but while he cries out that he himself is weak, he blames Jesus.

He meets a fitting end, but I must warn you, this is a disturbing movie and one that will offend.

2 out of 5 stars Not as good as the hype.......2007-06-29

Being a fan of Harvey Keitel, I had to go with my friend's recommendation to see The Bad Lieutenant. However, I was a bit disappointed. Having seen Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, et al, I figured this one would be a good one. But it was basically an hour and a half of pervasive drug use, obsession over baseball games, and flat dialog.

Yes, I understood the idea of him being a filthy low-life who redeems himself, but it could have been written better, and it wasn't as alarming as I was led to believe. The nun rape scene was short and not terribly shocking, and the nude scene other reviewers mentioned was dull and bizarre to say the least. By the end of the movie, you'll be thoroughly tired of him making noises like a goat in heat.

Now, don't get me wrong, Harvey Keitel is an EXCELLENT actor. I LOVE his work. This one just fell a bit flat. For seedy 'underbelly of society' style shock value, I'd rather pull out "Crimes of Passion", or "Kalifornia", quite honestly. ("Crimes of Passion"'s scene with the nighstick, the cop, and the Ivory soap comment is much more vile and shocking than the nun scene here).

It does get a thumbs up for one scene near the end where he's yelling at a Jesus hallucination in the church. It's got quite a visual intensity to it. And for the ladies like myself looking forward to the "Keitel Beefcake Factor", trust me, "The Piano" was a much better bang for your buck. Harvey can polish my piano any time!

5 out of 5 stars Keitel's best performance.......2007-03-12

Only an actor of Keitel's incredible talent can take a character that you don't know whether to hate or pity , that has only bad qualities, goes on an endless spree of degenerate gambling, drug use, sexual devient behavior and police corruption and make them 100% believable and engaging. You can really picture LT as a real person who has lived the way he does in the movie for a long time and is finally hitting comlete rock bottom. A truly masterful performance. Anyone who has known someone whose life is spiraling downward due to addiction can understand the excellent portrayal and the final price LT pays is the unfortunate end that the real world dishes out 95% of the time. This movie doesn't have an incredibly complex plot or meaning but I would somerize the meaning to me as forgiveness for some people can only come after death because there isn't much forgiveness in the real world for the truly lost soul. Bad Lieutenant (he is never given a name) is a truly bad person who no matter how hard they try can not change due to weakness and he pays the price for his weakness. Sounds like a lot of real people to me. Buy it if you enjoy great acting. Keitel rules!!!

3 out of 5 stars I expected better..........2007-01-04

From the director of ''Drllier Killer'' and ''King of New York''...starring Harvey Keitel...supposedly ''shocking and raw''.

Eh.

It isn't a BAD movie, per se...just not a good one, either. The religious aspect and its accompanying imagery wouldn't look out of place in ''Rosemary's Baby'' or ''The Omen'', but in a film from 1992, it comes off too obvious and cheesy. Keitel's performance has its so-aggro-it-comes-off-as-funny moments (shooting the radio,etc.) and some decent drug scenes (I'd guess the randomness of the other characters involved-especially the waifish girl junkie-is on purpose to show how the only connections he has to most people are drugs and gambling.) There are, however, some scenes that are just too overdone (the aforementioned religious imagery) and/or pointless and those are the ones that unfortunately stick out.

If you want something in a ''Taxi Driver'' or ''I Stand Alone'' vein, it's worth renting or even buying cheap/used...nowhere near as good as those two movies, though.

5 out of 5 stars Great Cop Flick!.......2006-09-26

One of those great cop flicks. Another one is COP, with James Woods.
McHale's Navy (1997)
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Remake Uhh!
  • McHales Navy on DVD
  • One of my fav.s
  • NOT A GOOD DVD
  • an ok B movie
McHale's Navy (1997)
Starring: Tom Arnold , Tom Ayers , Ernest Borgnine , Bruce Campbell , and Henry Cho
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ASIN: B00008O38G
Release Date: 2003-06-03

Product Description

Set sail on a hilarious voyage to outrageous adventure as Tom Arnold, Debra Messing, David Alan Grier, Dean Stockwell, Tim Curry and Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine (the original McHale in a madcap cameo appearance) take to the high seas in this laugh-packed, big screen adaptation of the wildly popular 60 s television series.

Arnold stars as laid-back retired Naval Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale, whose days of leisure are jeopardized when his former nemesis Major Vladikov (Curry) unexpectedly surfaces with a scheme that threatens his beloved Caribbean island base. Returning to uniform, McHale, assisted by Penelope Carpenter (Messing), his lovely, fun-loving First Lieutenant, guides his crazy crew of misfits through a series of madcap maneuvers that has the enemy scrambling for cover and the audience roaring with delight!

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  • Running Time 109 Min

    Format: DVD MOVIE

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    Fans of the early-'60s sitcom are naturally disappointed by this more juvenile approach to the old concept, which found Navy Captain McHale commanding a merry band of hustlers in the Pacific. Tom Arnold plays the updated title character, and while there's every reason he could have done a fine job, the script eschews the show's tone for something broader and dumber. A lost opportunity, all right, and the original McHale, Ernest Borgnine, appears to give it his blessing with a cameo as Pentagon brass. --Tom Keogh

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Remake Uhh!.......2007-06-12

    I had high hopes for this flim BUT No!!! God they could of made a better film for the money they spent on this few LAUGHS gags that I got.
    They needed to worked the plot a lot more.The star power was'nt that bad they should've demanded a better script from the writers.The film set in the 1990- 97 okay was hard at best,because the old show was set in WW2 and that was great,and the 97 film was hard to watch because there was no real plot at all.Tim Curry as the world second best terrorist okay that sound like a plot I'd guess!! I 'll watch the DVD when I need see something GOFFY on Saturday. I love flim with HighJinks but this one falls short some what.I BE NICE AND GIVE 3 STARS.

    4 out of 5 stars McHales Navy on DVD.......2007-06-08

    Postage could have been a little faster but item was as it should be.

    5 out of 5 stars One of my fav.s.......2006-12-30

    This is one of my favorite moves I watch it all the time!

    3 out of 5 stars NOT A GOOD DVD.......2006-09-06

    This is a barebones DVD, nuff said. It only includes a Theatrical Trailer. Great movie, though.

    2 out of 5 stars an ok B movie.......2006-05-09

    If you are a fan of the old series this movie isn't worth your time and effort.

    If you don't mind an ok B movie with a few funny moments from a cast much better than the material it is given (unfortunately the cast manages to sink to its level) then you won't mind it.

    I really can't recommend you spend money on this one. Wait for the actual series to make it to DVD (what's keeping it?)
    Ulzana's Raid
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • An examination of Christian morality in the Old West
    • Bleak Narration of a Rough Chase.
    • Over Priced DVD
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    • Culture clash - A lesson from History.
    Ulzana's Raid
    Starring: Burt Lancaster , Bruce Davison , Jorge Luke , Richard Jaeckel , and Joaquín Martínez
    Director: Robert Aldrich
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    ASIN: B00000I1KD
    Release Date: 1999-01-26

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    Robert Aldrich pulls no punches in his unrelentingly brutal story of a reign of terror perpetrated on Arizona settlers by a bitter Apache warrior and the cavalry's frustrated attempts to stop him. Burt Lancaster, a longtime Aldrich collaborator and star of the similar 1954 Western Apache, brings his laconic, quietly authoritative presence to the role of McIntosh, a blunt-speaking, introspective old army scout with more respect than hate for his enemy. A very young Bruce Davison is the green-as-a-sapling Lieutenant DeBuin, fresh from West Point and filled with Christian ideals, thrown into the field against the vicious, tactically brilliant Ulzana. DeBuin is shocked and appalled at Ulzana's brutality--torturing male homesteaders to death, raping the women, leaving a trail of mutilated corpses--and as he struggles to understand Ulzana his values of Christian charity soon melt into racist hatred. Ulzana's tactics were familiar to Americans in 1972 who followed the war in Vietnam and the guerrilla attacks of the Vietcong. Like The Wild Bunch before it, Ulzana's Raid removes the sentimentality of Western ideals in its harsh portrayal of the violent world, though unlike Sam Peckinpah, Aldrich leaves the violence off-screen and allows the audience to see only the horrific aftermath. (These scenes are often graphic and not recommended for the squeamish.) It's a disturbing and powerful film, where the concept of good guys and bad guys becomes meaningless and the battle between cultures ultimately comes down to survival in a harsh world. --Sean Axmaker

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    4 out of 5 stars An examination of Christian morality in the Old West.......2006-09-03

    The accomplished Burt Lancaster plays gruff and experienced Army scout McIntosh in the visually stunning "Ulzana's Raid", filmed on location in Arizona and Nevada. Lancaster is accompanying, pivotal character in the movie Lt. DeBuin played by a youthful Bruce Davison. Davison, a green, naive newly commissioned junior officer is leading a troop of cavalry soldiers in search of Apache chief Ulzana.

    Ulzana and a band of renegade braves have broken out of the reservation and are marauding through the countryside in the Arizona territories, cutting a swath of destruction in their wake. Ulzana and his war party are burning, raping and pillaging homesteaders as they made their way towards the Mexican border.

    Davison aided by Lancaster has been ordered to either kill the merciless Ulzana or capture him and return him to the reservation.

    The film serves as a coming of age for Davison, the son of a Christian minister. The brutal devastation left behind by the Apaches force Davison to question his Christian idealogy, as his hate for his foes mounts. He begins to appreciate Lancaster's respectful posture in his dealing with the dreaded Apaches.

    Director Robert Aldrich adds a healthy dose of violence in his film, a useful tool to create conflict in the immature mind of Davison. Cinematographer Joseph Biroc effectively captured the desolate expanse of the Southwest with some dazzling panoramic vistas.

    5 out of 5 stars Bleak Narration of a Rough Chase........2004-12-24

    Robert Aldrich is a well known film director with more than 30 titles in his account. Many are great "hits" as "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) and "What ever happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) and some are standard stuff.
    Apaches and the Wild West figure more than once in his filmography as "Apache" (1954) and "Vera Cruz" (1954).

    When he directed this movie he was almost ending his career and felt free to take some risks. This film is risky and gives a stern look to Apache and White Men confrontation. Many of the scenes presented are cruel and barbarous but not gratuitous. They blatantly are inquiring for "Why this cruelty?" and the explanation come from Ke-Ni-Tay's mouth, voicing Apache's beliefs and traditions, giving a rationale to their procedures.
    I've recently reviewed some films dealing with similar subject, not one of them is as bluntly direct and believable as "Ulzana's Raid".
    Aldrich's movie shows no "Blue Coat Heroes", no "Native Shining Knights". Shows just rough men immersed in a deadly confrontation trying their best to outsmart and annihilate the enemy. Yet, best human traits still emerge from this dry opus: self-sacrifice and loyalty; need for understanding and respect for the defeated.

    The story centers in a group of nine Apaches leaded by Ulzana, which flee San Carlos Reservation and start a raid, creating havoc and devastation in their path. A small detachment conducted by a very "green" Lieutenant, an old White scout and an Apache scout follow the rogue party to put an end to their "amok run".

    Burt Lancaster fleshes McIntosh with all his skill depicting a hardboiled scout having to bear the "authority" of the inexperienced military. Jorge Luke as Ke-Ni-Tay, Joaquin Martinez as Ulzana, Bruce Davison as Lt. De Buin and Richard Jaeckel as the Sergeant are very convincing.
    A tough movie to watch, not commendable for young and/or impressionable audience. Nevertheless a "keeper" if you like "untamed realistic" Western!
    Reviewed by Max Yofre.

    5 out of 5 stars Over Priced DVD.......2004-03-22

    I have the VHS of this movie. I would rate the movie as outstanding. I have waited for the DVD to come out but in my opinion it way over priced and people like me who are retired and on a fixed income cannot afford to pay the price you ask. If it comes down, a lot, I will save up my money and purchase this DVD.

    5 out of 5 stars FULL-SCREEN (ALAS...) VERSION OF A SUPERB WESTERN.......2002-11-30

    I really don't understand what's going on in the mind of the people who decide which movies may have the honor to be released in the DVD standard. Take Robert Aldrich's ULZANA'S RAID for instance. Everybody knows or at least should know that only the curious ones and the movie lovers would bought this 1972 movie and that this category of viewers prefers a wide-screen version than a butchered version of the movie they choose. Alas, it seems that our beloved DVD producers are the sole unaware of this fact. Shame on them.

    As usual, Robert Aldrich doesn't present in this film what the majority of people would expect from a mainstream western. All the characters featured in ULZANA'S RAID have a good reason to act the way they did, even Ulzana, an apache parked in a reservation, almost starving and deprived from his pride. The scout Burt Lancaster (or the director Aldrich) doesn't judge nor hate Ulzana, he's just scared to death of what could do a bunch of bloody warriors to farmers lost in the Arizona desert.

    Aldrich, like Samuel Fuller, is a punching-ball director who likes to shake his audience so let's enjoy this dreadful vision of the West when men were searching frontiers, geographical and ethical.

    A DVD zone your library. And for the garbage can as soon as a wide-screen version is available.

    5 out of 5 stars Culture clash - A lesson from History........2002-10-02

    Viewing this film should be part of any university degree's Social History and/or Western History curriculum.

    With the Spaghetti Western in the ascendent (late '60s, early '70s), Hollywood took to re-evaluating its view of the American Indian. Hitherto, the Indians were depicted as irrascible and villainous savages prone to hideous extremes of violence and cruelty - fully deserving of confinement to reservations or outright extermination.

    This re-evaluation of American/colonists' mores in the Old West came at a time during the 1960s when violence as an 'entertainment concept' was also subject to re-evaluation: the nightly news footage and 'body counts' of the Vietnam Conflict had made the punch of the fist and the gunshot - formerly the stock-in-trade of the good ol' cowboy - seem both tame and outmoded next to napalm and helicopter gunships. The foreign policy of the United States had always been portrayed as morally just. But Vietnam made the American public wonder if their crusaders really were on the side of the angels - particularly when details of Lt. Calley's massacre of My-Lai became known. The bubble burst as violence inside America itself erupted from the television screens during the Anderson-Watts riots in Los Angeles (1965), the brutality of the Chicago police at the Democratic Party Convention (1968), and the apparently trigger-happy 'eagerness' of the Ohio National Guard during the Kent State University demonstrations (4th May, 1970) in which four white, middle-class students were shot dead and ten others badly wounded.

    Seen as Robert Aldrich's 'comment' on America's involvement in Vietnam, Ulzana's Raid was one of those coming-of-age Westerns that depicted the brutality of a violent culture clash, but without judging its morality - or lack of it - as neither side is portrayed as either better or worse than the other, just different. Similar films were Soldier Blue (1970) and Chato's Land (1971).

    Word arrives that Chiricahua warrior Ulzana has jumped the San Carlos reservation with a band of followers. The local Company Captain of the resident 6th Cavalry Regiment has misgivings about pursuing an Apache with a reputation such as Ulzana's, and devolves command - and thus responsibility should it fail - upon young and recently arrived from West Point Lieutenant DeBuin (Bruce Davison). Young DeBuin, son of a Baptist minister, is advised in the field by wily veteran scout McIntosh (Burt Lancaster).

    It is a steep learning curve, but DeBuin can also draw upon first-hand observations and knowledge by asking direct questions to Chiricahua scout Ke-na-tay (Jorge Luke), Ulzana's brother-in-law. To the young idealist's credit, his ingrained White Man's contempt of Redskins is superseded by the command's experience - mirroring Major Dundee with its repetitive phrase "until the Apache is apprehended or killed" - as DeBuin learns both how the Apache live by such apparently barbarous standards in the harsh lands of the 'Apacheria' (the American south-west, where the various bands of Apache have/had their homelands), and that their acts of deliberate cruelty are often a cunning tactical manoeuvre, designed to play upon their adversaries' weaknesses and cultural foibles ... successfully and effectively, too.

    Particularly unsettling is the scene in which the tactically gang-raped Mrs. Riordon staggers into the pond and attempts to clean herself - a scene often cut from TV versions. The soldiers remain seated, unconcerned ... after all, McIntosh had summed-up earlier, "It ain't nice cleanin' up after Apaches ..."

    HISTORICAL NOTE: There really was an Ul-sannah (also spelled Jolsanny) who often jumped the reservation with Geronimo. In 1885 he led his own successful - or notorious, if one is White - raiding party consisting of himself and nine men. There was also an Archie McIntosh, a devoted scout for General Crook of some twenty years' standing. He was fired from his assigned task of rationing officer following accusations - unfortunately substantiated - of stealing supplies for his own use.

    MY ONLY GRIPE: am not aware any horses were harmed in the making of this film, but my DVD copy has the shot horses-staggering-to-the-ground scenes omitted. It makes for VERY stilted viewing to see a shooter aiming ... firing ... and the rider rolling on the ground AFTERWARDS. This DVD version is not a Director's Cut ...
    Bad Lieutenant
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Bad is hardly the word for it
    • Not as good as the hype
    • Keitel's best performance
    • I expected better...
    • Great Cop Flick!
    Bad Lieutenant
    Starring: Harvey Keitel , Victor Argo , Paul Calderon , Leonard L. Thomas , and Robin Burrows
    Director: Abel Ferrara
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    ASIN: 0784011559
    Release Date: 1998-11-10

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    Proving that he may be the most fearless actor of his or any other generation, Harvey Keitel gives an amazing, no-holds-barred performance in director Abel Ferrara's uncompromising 1992 film about a New York cop on the edge of self-annihilation. The film's title is meant to be taken literally: Keitel's character has no redeeming values whatsoever, save for his desperate need for redemption. Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide is correct in calling this an "over-the-top Catholic guilt movie," but it's been made with such conviction that Ferrara and Keitel transcend the sheer unpleasantness of the material to give it a kind of tragic divinity. Here's a character so vile and corrupted that he consumes or re-sells the drugs he confiscates, but when he's assigned to investigate the brutal rape of a nun who refuses to press charges, he feels that this is his opportunity to redeem his rotten soul. Deservedly rated NC-17 due to its rough content and a frontal nude scene that even Keitel's most loyal fans could do without, this film tends to divide viewers into love-it-or-hate-it categories, but few could deny its raw power and the deeply anguished humanity that Keitel brings to his role. Whatever your reaction may be, few would deny this is an unforgettable film. --Jeff Shannon

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Bad is hardly the word for it.......2007-06-29

    Probably no cop ever sunk so low as Harvey Keitel's New York police lieutenant. He is the very personification of corruption and hypocrisy. Addicted to every street drug of note, heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, which he both snorts and main lines. He chugalugs vodka. He neglects his family, his children. He consorts with prostitutes, two at a time. He goes to crime scenes to steal the drugs or the money. He takes bribes and stops young female drivers and shakes them down for sex.

    He is a Catholic that considers the church a racket. He is a cop who solves no crimes, who lets the criminals go free if they pay him. He corrupts not only himself but the entire system of criminal justice. He is appetite incarnate.

    But what does him in is his betting on baseball games. It is the year the Mets came from three games down to win the National League championship, and he bet against the Mets. With play by play in the background in scene after scene we are reminded forcibly that the outcome of baseball games is one thing he cannot control, something that he cannot corrupt, and perhaps that is why he bets on the games.

    Abel Ferarra's portrait of a man turbo'ed toward hell is one of the better films I have seen recently. It is uncompromising in its cynicism. Keitel's performance is strident and intense, all consuming and depraved. He is a muscle, an artery that throbs. He is a man who will never be satisfied, who will never be fulfilled. His is the very antithesis of the nun who is raped and forgives those who rape her. She is fulfilled with the love of Jesus. But he cannot believe--or rather, what is worse, his belief is corrupted. In the end we see that he does believe in Jesus and the saints but while he cries out that he himself is weak, he blames Jesus.

    He meets a fitting end, but I must warn you, this is a disturbing movie and one that will offend.

    2 out of 5 stars Not as good as the hype.......2007-06-29

    Being a fan of Harvey Keitel, I had to go with my friend's recommendation to see The Bad Lieutenant. However, I was a bit disappointed. Having seen Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, et al, I figured this one would be a good one. But it was basically an hour and a half of pervasive drug use, obsession over baseball games, and flat dialog.

    Yes, I understood the idea of him being a filthy low-life who redeems himself, but it could have been written better, and it wasn't as alarming as I was led to believe. The nun rape scene was short and not terribly shocking, and the nude scene other reviewers mentioned was dull and bizarre to say the least. By the end of the movie, you'll be thoroughly tired of him making noises like a goat in heat.

    Now, don't get me wrong, Harvey Keitel is an EXCELLENT actor. I LOVE his work. This one just fell a bit flat. For seedy 'underbelly of society' style shock value, I'd rather pull out "Crimes of Passion", or "Kalifornia", quite honestly. ("Crimes of Passion"'s scene with the nighstick, the cop, and the Ivory soap comment is much more vile and shocking than the nun scene here).

    It does get a thumbs up for one scene near the end where he's yelling at a Jesus hallucination in the church. It's got quite a visual intensity to it. And for the ladies like myself looking forward to the "Keitel Beefcake Factor", trust me, "The Piano" was a much better bang for your buck. Harvey can polish my piano any time!

    5 out of 5 stars Keitel's best performance.......2007-03-12

    Only an actor of Keitel's incredible talent can take a character that you don't know whether to hate or pity , that has only bad qualities, goes on an endless spree of degenerate gambling, drug use, sexual devient behavior and police corruption and make them 100% believable and engaging. You can really picture LT as a real person who has lived the way he does in the movie for a long time and is finally hitting comlete rock bottom. A truly masterful performance. Anyone who has known someone whose life is spiraling downward due to addiction can understand the excellent portrayal and the final price LT pays is the unfortunate end that the real world dishes out 95% of the time. This movie doesn't have an incredibly complex plot or meaning but I would somerize the meaning to me as forgiveness for some people can only come after death because there isn't much forgiveness in the real world for the truly lost soul. Bad Lieutenant (he is never given a name) is a truly bad person who no matter how hard they try can not change due to weakness and he pays the price for his weakness. Sounds like a lot of real people to me. Buy it if you enjoy great acting. Keitel rules!!!

    3 out of 5 stars I expected better..........2007-01-04

    From the director of ''Drllier Killer'' and ''King of New York''...starring Harvey Keitel...supposedly ''shocking and raw''.

    Eh.

    It isn't a BAD movie, per se...just not a good one, either. The religious aspect and its accompanying imagery wouldn't look out of place in ''Rosemary's Baby'' or ''The Omen'', but in a film from 1992, it comes off too obvious and cheesy. Keitel's performance has its so-aggro-it-comes-off-as-funny moments (shooting the radio,etc.) and some decent drug scenes (I'd guess the randomness of the other characters involved-especially the waifish girl junkie-is on purpose to show how the only connections he has to most people are drugs and gambling.) There are, however, some scenes that are just too overdone (the aforementioned religious imagery) and/or pointless and those are the ones that unfortunately stick out.

    If you want something in a ''Taxi Driver'' or ''I Stand Alone'' vein, it's worth renting or even buying cheap/used...nowhere near as good as those two movies, though.

    5 out of 5 stars Great Cop Flick!.......2006-09-26

    One of those great cop flicks. Another one is COP, with James Woods.
    Crime Collector's Pack - Suicide Kings - Bad Lieutenant - Bad Boys
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        Starring: Reservoir Dogs , and Bad Lieutenant
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        RESERVOIR DOGS - Four Perfect Killers. One Perfect Crime. Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is a police informer. But which one? BAD LIEUTENANT - He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He's a gambler...a thief...a junkie...a killer and a cop. Now's he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth his self-destructive past is closing in. Harvey Keitel gives a searing performance as an out-of-control police detective on a collision course with disaster in director Abel Ferrara's brilliant and deeply disturbing melodrama.
        Bad Lieutenant [Region 2]
        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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        Bad Lieutenant [Region 2]
        Starring: Harvey Keitel , Victor Argo , Paul Calderon , Leonard L. Thomas , and Robin Burrows
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        Proving that he may be the most fearless actor of his or any other generation, Harvey Keitel gives an amazing, no-holds-barred performance in director Abel Ferrara's uncompromising 1992 film about a New York cop on the edge of self-annihilation. The film's title is meant to be taken literally: Keitel's character has no redeeming values whatsoever, save for his desperate need for redemption. Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide is correct in calling this an "over-the-top Catholic guilt movie," but it's been made with such conviction that Ferrara and Keitel transcend the sheer unpleasantness of the material to give it a kind of tragic divinity. Here's a character so vile and corrupted that he consumes or re-sells the drugs he confiscates, but when he's assigned to investigate the brutal rape of a nun who refuses to press charges, he feels that this is his opportunity to redeem his rotten soul. Deservedly rated NC-17 due to its rough content and a frontal nude scene that even Keitel's most loyal fans could do without, this film tends to divide viewers into love-it-or-hate-it categories, but few could deny its raw power and the deeply anguished humanity that Keitel brings to his role. Whatever your reaction may be, few would deny this is an unforgettable film. --Jeff Shannon

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars Bad is hardly the word for it.......2007-06-29

        Probably no cop ever sunk so low as Harvey Keitel's New York police lieutenant. He is the very personification of corruption and hypocrisy. Addicted to every street drug of note, heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, which he both snorts and main lines. He chugalugs vodka. He neglects his family, his children. He consorts with prostitutes, two at a time. He goes to crime scenes to steal the drugs or the money. He takes bribes and stops young female drivers and shakes them down for sex.

        He is a Catholic that considers the church a racket. He is a cop who solves no crimes, who lets the criminals go free if they pay him. He corrupts not only himself but the entire system of criminal justice. He is appetite incarnate.

        But what does him in is his betting on baseball games. It is the year the Mets came from three games down to win the National League championship, and he bet against the Mets. With play by play in the background in scene after scene we are reminded forcibly that the outcome of baseball games is one thing he cannot control, something that he cannot corrupt, and perhaps that is why he bets on the games.

        Abel Ferarra's portrait of a man turbo'ed toward hell is one of the better films I have seen recently. It is uncompromising in its cynicism. Keitel's performance is strident and intense, all consuming and depraved. He is a muscle, an artery that throbs. He is a man who will never be satisfied, who will never be fulfilled. His is the very antithesis of the nun who is raped and forgives those who rape her. She is fulfilled with the love of Jesus. But he cannot believe--or rather, what is worse, his belief is corrupted. In the end we see that he does believe in Jesus and the saints but while he cries out that he himself is weak, he blames Jesus.

        He meets a fitting end, but I must warn you, this is a disturbing movie and one that will offend.

        2 out of 5 stars Not as good as the hype.......2007-06-29

        Being a fan of Harvey Keitel, I had to go with my friend's recommendation to see The Bad Lieutenant. However, I was a bit disappointed. Having seen Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, et al, I figured this one would be a good one. But it was basically an hour and a half of pervasive drug use, obsession over baseball games, and flat dialog.

        Yes, I understood the idea of him being a filthy low-life who redeems himself, but it could have been written better, and it wasn't as alarming as I was led to believe. The nun rape scene was short and not terribly shocking, and the nude scene other reviewers mentioned was dull and bizarre to say the least. By the end of the movie, you'll be thoroughly tired of him making noises like a goat in heat.

        Now, don't get me wrong, Harvey Keitel is an EXCELLENT actor. I LOVE his work. This one just fell a bit flat. For seedy 'underbelly of society' style shock value, I'd rather pull out "Crimes of Passion", or "Kalifornia", quite honestly. ("Crimes of Passion"'s scene with the nighstick, the cop, and the Ivory soap comment is much more vile and shocking than the nun scene here).

        It does get a thumbs up for one scene near the end where he's yelling at a Jesus hallucination in the church. It's got quite a visual intensity to it. And for the ladies like myself looking forward to the "Keitel Beefcake Factor", trust me, "The Piano" was a much better bang for your buck. Harvey can polish my piano any time!

        5 out of 5 stars Keitel's best performance.......2007-03-12

        Only an actor of Keitel's incredible talent can take a character that you don't know whether to hate or pity , that has only bad qualities, goes on an endless spree of degenerate gambling, drug use, sexual devient behavior and police corruption and make them 100% believable and engaging. You can really picture LT as a real person who has lived the way he does in the movie for a long time and is finally hitting comlete rock bottom. A truly masterful performance. Anyone who has known someone whose life is spiraling downward due to addiction can understand the excellent portrayal and the final price LT pays is the unfortunate end that the real world dishes out 95% of the time. This movie doesn't have an incredibly complex plot or meaning but I would somerize the meaning to me as forgiveness for some people can only come after death because there isn't much forgiveness in the real world for the truly lost soul. Bad Lieutenant (he is never given a name) is a truly bad person who no matter how hard they try can not change due to weakness and he pays the price for his weakness. Sounds like a lot of real people to me. Buy it if you enjoy great acting. Keitel rules!!!

        3 out of 5 stars I expected better..........2007-01-04

        From the director of ''Drllier Killer'' and ''King of New York''...starring Harvey Keitel...supposedly ''shocking and raw''.

        Eh.

        It isn't a BAD movie, per se...just not a good one, either. The religious aspect and its accompanying imagery wouldn't look out of place in ''Rosemary's Baby'' or ''The Omen'', but in a film from 1992, it comes off too obvious and cheesy. Keitel's performance has its so-aggro-it-comes-off-as-funny moments (shooting the radio,etc.) and some decent drug scenes (I'd guess the randomness of the other characters involved-especially the waifish girl junkie-is on purpose to show how the only connections he has to most people are drugs and gambling.) There are, however, some scenes that are just too overdone (the aforementioned religious imagery) and/or pointless and those are the ones that unfortunately stick out.

        If you want something in a ''Taxi Driver'' or ''I Stand Alone'' vein, it's worth renting or even buying cheap/used...nowhere near as good as those two movies, though.

        5 out of 5 stars Great Cop Flick!.......2006-09-26

        One of those great cop flicks. Another one is COP, with James Woods.
        Bad Lieutenant [Region 2]
        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
        • Bad is hardly the word for it
        • Not as good as the hype
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        Starring: Harvey Keitel , Victor Argo , Paul Calderon , Leonard L. Thomas , and Robin Burrows
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        Proving that he may be the most fearless actor of his or any other generation, Harvey Keitel gives an amazing, no-holds-barred performance in director Abel Ferrara's uncompromising 1992 film about a New York cop on the edge of self-annihilation. The film's title is meant to be taken literally: Keitel's character has no redeeming values whatsoever, save for his desperate need for redemption. Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide is correct in calling this an "over-the-top Catholic guilt movie," but it's been made with such conviction that Ferrara and Keitel transcend the sheer unpleasantness of the material to give it a kind of tragic divinity. Here's a character so vile and corrupted that he consumes or re-sells the drugs he confiscates, but when he's assigned to investigate the brutal rape of a nun who refuses to press charges, he feels that this is his opportunity to redeem his rotten soul. Deservedly rated NC-17 due to its rough content and a frontal nude scene that even Keitel's most loyal fans could do without, this film tends to divide viewers into love-it-or-hate-it categories, but few could deny its raw power and the deeply anguished humanity that Keitel brings to his role. Whatever your reaction may be, few would deny this is an unforgettable film. --Jeff Shannon

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars Bad is hardly the word for it.......2007-06-29

        Probably no cop ever sunk so low as Harvey Keitel's New York police lieutenant. He is the very personification of corruption and hypocrisy. Addicted to every street drug of note, heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, which he both snorts and main lines. He chugalugs vodka. He neglects his family, his children. He consorts with prostitutes, two at a time. He goes to crime scenes to steal the drugs or the money. He takes bribes and stops young female drivers and shakes them down for sex.

        He is a Catholic that considers the church a racket. He is a cop who solves no crimes, who lets the criminals go free if they pay him. He corrupts not only himself but the entire system of criminal justice. He is appetite incarnate.

        But what does him in is his betting on baseball games. It is the year the Mets came from three games down to win the National League championship, and he bet against the Mets. With play by play in the background in scene after scene we are reminded forcibly that the outcome of baseball games is one thing he cannot control, something that he cannot corrupt, and perhaps that is why he bets on the games.

        Abel Ferarra's portrait of a man turbo'ed toward hell is one of the better films I have seen recently. It is uncompromising in its cynicism. Keitel's performance is strident and intense, all consuming and depraved. He is a muscle, an artery that throbs. He is a man who will never be satisfied, who will never be fulfilled. His is the very antithesis of the nun who is raped and forgives those who rape her. She is fulfilled with the love of Jesus. But he cannot believe--or rather, what is worse, his belief is corrupted. In the end we see that he does believe in Jesus and the saints but while he cries out that he himself is weak, he blames Jesus.

        He meets a fitting end, but I must warn you, this is a disturbing movie and one that will offend.

        2 out of 5 stars Not as good as the hype.......2007-06-29

        Being a fan of Harvey Keitel, I had to go with my friend's recommendation to see The Bad Lieutenant. However, I was a bit disappointed. Having seen Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, et al, I figured this one would be a good one. But it was basically an hour and a half of pervasive drug use, obsession over baseball games, and flat dialog.

        Yes, I understood the idea of him being a filthy low-life who redeems himself, but it could have been written better, and it wasn't as alarming as I was led to believe. The nun rape scene was short and not terribly shocking, and the nude scene other reviewers mentioned was dull and bizarre to say the least. By the end of the movie, you'll be thoroughly tired of him making noises like a goat in heat.

        Now, don't get me wrong, Harvey Keitel is an EXCELLENT actor. I LOVE his work. This one just fell a bit flat. For seedy 'underbelly of society' style shock value, I'd rather pull out "Crimes of Passion", or "Kalifornia", quite honestly. ("Crimes of Passion"'s scene with the nighstick, the cop, and the Ivory soap comment is much more vile and shocking than the nun scene here).

        It does get a thumbs up for one scene near the end where he's yelling at a Jesus hallucination in the church. It's got quite a visual intensity to it. And for the ladies like myself looking forward to the "Keitel Beefcake Factor", trust me, "The Piano" was a much better bang for your buck. Harvey can polish my piano any time!

        5 out of 5 stars Keitel's best performance.......2007-03-12

        Only an actor of Keitel's incredible talent can take a character that you don't know whether to hate or pity , that has only bad qualities, goes on an endless spree of degenerate gambling, drug use, sexual devient behavior and police corruption and make them 100% believable and engaging. You can really picture LT as a real person who has lived the way he does in the movie for a long time and is finally hitting comlete rock bottom. A truly masterful performance. Anyone who has known someone whose life is spiraling downward due to addiction can understand the excellent portrayal and the final price LT pays is the unfortunate end that the real world dishes out 95% of the time. This movie doesn't have an incredibly complex plot or meaning but I would somerize the meaning to me as forgiveness for some people can only come after death because there isn't much forgiveness in the real world for the truly lost soul. Bad Lieutenant (he is never given a name) is a truly bad person who no matter how hard they try can not change due to weakness and he pays the price for his weakness. Sounds like a lot of real people to me. Buy it if you enjoy great acting. Keitel rules!!!

        3 out of 5 stars I expected better..........2007-01-04

        From the director of ''Drllier Killer'' and ''King of New York''...starring Harvey Keitel...supposedly ''shocking and raw''.

        Eh.

        It isn't a BAD movie, per se...just not a good one, either. The religious aspect and its accompanying imagery wouldn't look out of place in ''Rosemary's Baby'' or ''The Omen'', but in a film from 1992, it comes off too obvious and cheesy. Keitel's performance has its so-aggro-it-comes-off-as-funny moments (shooting the radio,etc.) and some decent drug scenes (I'd guess the randomness of the other characters involved-especially the waifish girl junkie-is on purpose to show how the only connections he has to most people are drugs and gambling.) There are, however, some scenes that are just too overdone (the aforementioned religious imagery) and/or pointless and those are the ones that unfortunately stick out.

        If you want something in a ''Taxi Driver'' or ''I Stand Alone'' vein, it's worth renting or even buying cheap/used...nowhere near as good as those two movies, though.

        5 out of 5 stars Great Cop Flick!.......2006-09-26

        One of those great cop flicks. Another one is COP, with James Woods.
        The Young Americans / Bad Lieutenant
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          The Young Americans / Bad Lieutenant
          Starring: Harvey Keitel , Iain Glen , John Wood , Terence Rigby , and Keith Allen
          Director: Danny Cannon , and Abel Ferrara
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          Release Date: 2002-10-22

          Description

          THE YOUNG AMERICANS: They're hip. They're tough. And they're methodically annihilating the city's most powerful crime bosses. They're THE YOUNG AMERICANS, a new and deadly order of gangsters. HARVEY KEITEL (Reservoir Dogs, The Piano) is John Harris, a Drug Enforcement Agent on the trail of Carl Frazer (VIGGO MORTENSEN, Boiling Point, The Indian Runner). Frazer will stop at nothing to seize the mob's drug trade, recruiting violent street punks to do his killing. Harris' only hope is to enlist Chris, a confused dead-end kid whose only allegiance is to his friends. But when Frazer's murderous ways hit too close to home, Chris crosses the line between honor and deceit to infiltrate the gang. Ultimately, both he and Harris must face Frazer's wrath in a deadly confrontation at point-blank range...

          BAD LIEUTENANT: He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He's a gambler... a thief... a junkie... a killer and a cop. Now he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth his self-destructive past is closing in. Harvey Keitel gives a searing performance as an out-of-control police detective on a collision course with disaster in director Abel Ferrara's brilliant and deeply disturbing melodrama.

          DVD:

          1. Once Upon a Time in China III
          2. Okinawa Kobudo Bo Vol. II
          3. Angel of Destruction
          4. Toughguy
          5. The Legend Of Boggy Creek
          6. Cutting Through the Mystery Japanese Military Iai-Batto-Do Swordsmanship Toyama Ryu Iaido
          7. Xchange
          8. Fighting Taiji-Quan Vol.3-d
          9. Hung Gar Kung Fu by Bucksam Kong Volume 2
          10. Gold

          DVD List

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          DVD

          Django (2-Disc Limited Edition)

          Cisco Kid Double Feature, Vol. 2 : DVD

          The Hurricane [2000]

          DVD: Little Shop of Horrors/Wasp Woman

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