crime drama

Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Abel Ferrara.

an alternative rock group which formed in 2007 in Manchester, UK

Bad Lieutenant is an alternative rock group which formed in 2007 in Manchester, UK.

trippy, darkly humorous, detective story

Bad Lieutenant is a trippy, darkly humorous, detective story with Nicholas Cage’s Terrance taking us on a wild ride into depravity that we can’t really predict.

a cheap thriller made by a cast and crew that were mostly drugged up at the time

Bad Lieutenant, on the other hand, is a cheap thriller made by a cast and crew that were mostly drugged up at the time, and directed by a man who was usually good at making cheap thrillers that sometimes transcended their origins.

an English alternative rock band formed following the second breakup of New Order

Bad Lieutenant was an English alternative rock band formed following the second breakup of New Order.

darkly humorous, detective story

Bad Lieutenant is a trippy, darkly humorous, detective story with Nicholas Cage’s Terrance taking us on a wild ride into depravity that we can’t really predict.

by a man who was usually good at making cheap thrillers that sometimes transcended their origins

Bad Lieutenant, on the other hand, is a cheap thriller made by a cast and crew that were mostly drugged up at the time, and directed by a man who was usually good at making cheap thrillers that sometimes transcended their origins.

a police procedural to the core: evidence lockers, corrupt cops, gritty realism, casual violence, drugs, and all that

Bad Lieutenant is a police procedural to the core: evidence lockers, corrupt cops, gritty realism, casual violence, drugs, and all that.

crime thrillers, mysteries, fantasy, and sci-fi

This category includes crime thrillers, mysteries, fantasy, and sci-fi.

thrillers

Most British thrillers seemed to be gritty police procedurals or gruff SAS-types saving the world.

generic procedural

The Bad Lieutenant… (the article in the title is not found in promotional materials, but was on the film I saw, so the film sticks) is a strange combination of scenery-chewing bewilderment and generic procedural that buoys some rather slack filmmaking, but the film manages to be completely engaging and often quite funny.

a fantastic throwback, except that every way is unhindered by any production codemeaning every way is allowed to enter murky the moral and ethical waters a 1950s-esque hard-boiled film noir in every way , that allow for Cage to go fully Cage

Bad Lieutenant is a fantastic throwback, a 1950s-esque hard-boiled film noir in every way except that every way is unhindered by any production code, meaning every way is allowed to enter murky the moral and ethical waters that allow for Cage to go fully Cage.

a 1992 crime-drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel

Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 crime-drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel.

crime film

Bad Lieutenant (1992) is a seminal American crime film, choosing to explore the seedy world of a crooked cop instead of other criminals.

an exploitation piece

Bad Lieutenant' is an exploitation piece, and nothing more, meant to shock audiences into giving a damn about the lowly character we see on screen, as Nicolas Cage's gambling on a fictional (and unrealistic)

crime thrillers

Law enforcement battles with drug cartels tend to be the focal point of bullet-ridden crime thrillers with strong “Type A” heroes and despicable villains and a handful of characters who cross the line between the two.

crime fiction

As with other types of genre fiction, the series is a popular format in crime fiction.

one of a pair of dystopian near-masterpieces

Bad Lieutenant is one of a pair of dystopian near-masterpieces - the other is King of New York (1990) - which took Ferrara to the frontiers of mainstream film-making before a defiantly uncommercial 1993 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers sent Ed Pressman straight back to indieville.

crime novel

The crime novel includes sub-genres such as classic detective, police procedural, cosy crime, hard-boiled, standard private eye, thrillers, the historical whodunnit, the legal thriller, courtroom, the spy novel, the crime caper and the psychological angle.

an ultraviolent, raw, profane film with an NC-17 rating

Bad Lieutenant is an ultraviolent, raw, profane film with an NC-17 rating; Gasper Noe’s extreme films I Stand Alone, Irreversible, and Enter The Void