Top 10 Remakes We Don’t Need
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
8. Bad Lieutenant
The original: 1992
The remake: 2009
Such is Abel Ferrara’s fury that Werner Herzog is reworking his controversial cult classic that he hopes the German director is blown to pieces in a streetcar. That’s awfully harsh. But it is somewhat premature to remake this 16-year-old tale of a drug-addled corrupt cop trying to vanquish his inner demons. And Nicolas Cage has the impossible task of trying to make us forget Harvey Keitel’s electrifying study in redemption. The move from New York to a post-Katrina New Orleans allows the action to occur under new and intriguing circumstances. But does this mean Cage’s moral awakening won’t be told parallel to the Mets’ struggle to win the World Series? If not, this Bad Lieutenant won’t be the same Bad Lieutenant we love to hate.
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