The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call (Werner Herzog)

For the past fifteen or so years, Mike has kept a running list of "The 10 Most Depressing Movies." I've seen a few but not many on this list. Based on the two or three I've seen, I'm willing to bet the first 110 minutes of this film could displace one and find it's place mid-way through the list.

Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, the film bleeds the city of the saturated colors associated with Carnival and presents a bleak, gray urban nightmare of drug/alcohol addiction, prostitution, and gambling.

That said, I have to admit that the weakest part of the movie are the final 12 minutes when the sun and a rainbox of color returns; everything turns around and the ending is tied up neatly and happily. What was that about?

Recommend with caveats.