The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

So I watched "The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans", so is it a ripoff of the earlier work starring Harvey Keitel from 1992 yeah well kind of. Is it a good movie well, its not bad and it could have been good. This movie stars Nicholas Cage in a role in which he is well suited for drug addicted maniac, as well as Eva Mendes as a drug addicted whore a role she is well suited for. This movie is also directed by Werner Herzog which is a job he is not suited for. He is a detail oriented director (Fitzcarraldo) who thrives when he is making documentaries which are character studies (grizzly man). This movie is a character study but is not very detail oriented. It follows a story about a guy and never has to get into the grit of being a real cop, or exploring the setting of a post Katrina New Orleans. This movie also has some hallucinations expreienced by Cage which seem more tacked on, except the last one at the end of the movie, which is also where this vehicle went off the tracks for me. This is a movie for indy lovers, but I believe is one that will be loved by some and hated by others with little in between. So if you love indy films watch it make up your own mind, all I can say is at least it didn't suck.