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.

neo-noir

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

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.

crime

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

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.

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 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.

scenery-chewing bewilderment and 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.

crime stories

The genre is broadly characterized by crime stories that often have untrustworthy characters and fatalistic endings.

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.

a morality play

Needless to say, Bad Lieutenant is a morality play, although a morality play’s a particularly inelegant one.

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.

a new step in film noir

: You've said Bad Lieutenant is a new step in film noir.

noir thriller and dystopian science fiction

The genre hovers between noir thriller and dystopian science fiction.

American action, crime, and thriller

The genre of the movie is American action, crime, and thriller.

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

adventure, thriller/suspense and road movies

This genre is synonymous to adventure, thriller/suspense and road movies, frequently described in almost any of these methods, and frequently has ingredients of espionage and heroism.