Really freaking crazy. People have been trying to relate it to Herzog's other crazy movies, but it really isn't anything like the Kinski films or his wacky documentaries or anything else. Honestly, if this movie was made by anyone else it would have been despised by everybody and only years later thought of as a bizarre cult flick. Having very little to do with Abel Ferrara's 1992 film starring Harvey Keitel, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans stars Nicholas Cage as a drug-crazed, gambling addicted, prostitute-dating police lieutenant in post-Katrina New Orleans. The film is partly a police procedural, but that part of the plot is pretty forgettable. Mostly Cage just keeps getting himself into deeper crap until it pretty much buries him. What you mostly will remember is Nick Cage's performance. You know how Nick Cage can sometimes be a little loopy? It's like in this movie, Herzog told him to go completely off-the-hook. He's never been this insane anywhere. Does this make the movie good? Not exactly, but it does make it totally watchable. Herzog goes insane once in a while, too, especially in the now infamous iguana and soul dancing sequences. In all honesty, this is easily the worst movie that Herzog has (or hopefully will ever) direct, but it's just so damn entertaining - but in a so-bad-it's-good sort of way.