Oftentimes we forget how great of an actor Nicolas Cage can be. In recent years, Nicholas Cage’s dramatic range has spanned from ludicrously hammy overacting (‘The Wicker Man’) to completely phoned in (‘Ghost Rider,’ ‘National Treasure’). However, despite the mainstream Hollywood actor’s succession of placid roles,  there has always been the sense that Nicolas Cage possesses an unhinged sense of bravado lying beneath the surface. And in ‘The Bad Lieutenant’, notorious fringe filmmaker Werner Herzog brings out the coke snorting, vicodin-addicted, gun-totin’, crazy son of a fucking bitch in Nicolas Cage.

Throughout his considerable career, Herzog has been known as a zealous, and at times downright mad, auteur willing to go any length to fulfill his artistic vision. On the set of ‘Aguirre: The Wrath Of God,’ Herzog infamously pulled a gun on Klaus Kinski and told him that, “you leave this jungle now and you’ll find eight bullets in you and the ninth one will be for me” after the actor threatened to walk off the set. Read more…