A drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigates the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
Abel Ferrara's masterpiece is stripped down to a hypnotic, at times surreal crime thriller within a world of lost moral barriers; the movie is mainly successful due to Nicolas Cage's intense performance.
Maltin***: "Wacky police procedural...a long, tawdry, wide-ranging yarn in which the good guys and bad guys are hard to differentiate. Cage is terrific in a no-holds-barred performance. Bear no resemblance to the 1992 film..."
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