7.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Overview
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Trans: Negative
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.1
Overview
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film primarily explores the individual moral decay and drug addiction of its protagonist, set against a backdrop of post-Katrina New Orleans. Its overwhelming focus on a deeply flawed individual's amoral survival rather than systemic critique or ideological solutions positions it as politically neutral.
The movie features a diverse cast in supporting roles, but without explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white characters. The narrative focuses on a morally corrupt white male protagonist, whose negative portrayal stems from his individual actions rather than a broader critique of traditional identities, and DEI themes are not central to the story.
Secondary
The film includes minor LGBTQ+ elements, such as a gay-coded drug dealer and a brief appearance of drag queens. These depictions are incidental to the main narrative, neither affirming nor denigrating LGBTQ+ identity, and primarily serve to populate the film's gritty New Orleans setting.
The film includes Tina, a transsexual prostitute, as a minor character. Her depiction reinforces a common and often problematic stereotype, with her vulnerability exploited by the protagonist. The narrative offers no counter-balance or critique, resulting in a portrayal that lacks dignity or positive affirmation.
The film uses Christian imagery and themes primarily to underscore the protagonist's profound moral corruption and hypocrisy. His 'faith' is a self-serving delusion, and religious symbols are often associated with his depravity or absurd hallucinations, without a counterbalancing positive portrayal.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans is an original story with new characters, not a remake or direct adaptation of the 1992 film's characters. Therefore, no characters were previously established as a different gender in source material or prior installments.
The film features new, original characters and is not a direct adaptation or remake of a prior work with established character races. Therefore, no character's race was changed from a canonical or historical baseline.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.6
6.2
Critic Ratings
8.6
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