Trailer Breakdown: Bad Lieutenant unofficial promo

Hero cop?

It all starts out placid enough, with Nic Cage's copper getting a gong at a swanky ceremony. "It gives me great pleasure to award the distinguished service cross to sergeant Terence McDonough." So that's his name, eh?

Back problems

A trip to the doctor reveals Terry has some issues - back issues.

Getting high

Uh oh... Looks like he turns to drugs to cure his pain. Though honestly, he was probably already addicted before the back problems...

Killer on the loose

The first actual plot thread arrives in the shape of a dangerous lunatic on the run. "This is who we’re looking for: we believe he’s also behind at least three homicides," says Cage's boss at a briefing.

Death scene

"You don’t wanna look," Terry is advised by a crime scene colleague as he inspects two bodies. "Execution style."

Oh, and the police are flummoxed except for one witness. "We have no prints, no DNA, no weapon. We lose the kid, we lose the case."

Guess who gets to look after him?

Hello, Eva

Aand here's one of the other plotlines - the lovely Eva Mendes as a battered woman Cage can't help but protect. At least, we *think* he'll protect her. He seems as dodgy as her boyfriend/hubby/whatever.

Dodgy dealing

Uh oh, corruption time... "Let’s take a walk," Cage tells a perp. "I’m gonna give you a chance to make some money the old fashioned way, with a cop protecting her." Old fashioned way... like... prostitution? Bribery? Both of those are fairly old-fashioned. But then they just keep coming back...

Air Supply

Oh, he's a wrong un' all right - cutting off a poor granny's oxygen supply because she won't reveal where the witness kid is. Nicely done!

Demanding!

After all, he gets up to much worse - such as holding his hun at more than one person's head. And swearing, which is even worse: "I said where the f**k is he?!"

Trippy...

Oooh... our first look at Terry's drug-induced hallucinations. "What are these f**kin’ iguanas doing on my coffee table?" he demands of Val Kilmer's fellow cop. "There ain’t no iguanas," comes the reply.

The proposition

"Are you turned on?" asks the almost-as-lovely-as-Eva Fairuza Balk in her bra and pants. Er, yes? Oh, she meant Terry.

We also see Terry go mad at a chemists' shop, demanding his prescription in typical Nic Cage OTT style. Time to lose the tics, Nic.

Bad behaviour

"You can’t get away with that cowboy s**t anymore," Terry's boss warns him, but we see that he apparently can. Sex with a drug-snorting hooker plus keeping someone from running by firing a warning shot. Yeah, seems cowboy-like to us. Clint Eastwood used to do it all the time.

Kilmer aims

A concerned Kilmer starts trying to clean up Cage's mess. "He acts like he likes you because he likes to get high," he explains. No... really?

A lucky what?

Here's where the movie really goes off the deep end. First off, Terry snorting crack with thugs. "You don’t have a lucky crack pipe?" he asks?

Dear Mr Herzog: we think you're trying to hard to top Abel Ferrara. And we're not convinced you don't know who he is.

Kill that breakdancer!

Plus our final moment - Cage watches as some bad guys shoot up a room. But one victim won't go down - at least not according to his drug-soaked mind: "Shoot him again," he says as he watches a crazy-blurry breakdancer gyrate. "His soul is still dancing." See what we mean about blurry +crazy?