Prime VideoBad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.1
Overview
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
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Prime VideoBias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: High
Christianity: Negative
Overview
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Starring Cast
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Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film primarily explores the individual moral decay and drug addiction of its protagonist, set against a backdrop of post-Katrina New Orleans. Its overwhelming focus on a deeply flawed individual's amoral survival rather than systemic critique or ideological solutions positions it as politically neutral.
The movie features a visibly diverse supporting cast, reflecting its New Orleans setting. Its narrative centers on a white male protagonist, a police lieutenant, who is explicitly portrayed in a highly negative and morally corrupt light throughout the film.
Secondary
The film portrays characters who nominally identify as Christian, including the protagonist and a priest, as deeply corrupt, hypocritical, and morally bankrupt. Their actions directly contradict Christian virtues, and the narrative offers no counterbalancing positive portrayal of the faith itself. Instead, these figures are used to highlight moral decay and the futility of nominal adherence in a corrupt world.
The film 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or explore related themes. Its narrative focuses entirely on the protagonist's descent into corruption and addiction amidst a criminal investigation, rendering the LGBTQ+ portrayal N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans is an original story with new characters, not a remake or direct adaptation of the 1992 film's characters. Therefore, no characters were previously established as a different gender in source material or prior installments.
The film features new, original characters and is not a direct adaptation or remake of a prior work with established character races. Therefore, no character's race was changed from a canonical or historical baseline.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
7.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
6.6
6.2
Critic Ratings
8.6
6.9
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