Werner Herzog directs this darkly comic thriller loosely based on Abel Ferrara's ' Bad Lieutenant' (1992), although Herzog claims to have never watched the original film. Nicolas Cage stars as corrupt cop Terrence Mc Donagh, a recently-promoted police detective in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, who approaches both his job & his escalating drug habit with instinctive abandon. Playing fast & loose with the law, Mc Donagh channels his manic energy into investigating the death of a family of Senagalese immigrants & taking on local drug kingpin Big Fate (Xzibit). Eva Mendes co-stars as Mc Donagh's troubled prostitute girlfriend, Frankie. ...

The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. When a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The Special Investigators always watched each other's backs. Now Reacher must put the old unit back together. Someone has killed one of them, & he can't let that go. ...

The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet, he is still close to untraceable. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. Someone has killed one of them. ...

You do not mess with Jack Reacher. He is as close to untraceable as a person can get. A loner comfortable in his anonymity & solitude. So when a member of his old Army unit finds a way to contact him, he knows this has to be serious. You do not mess with the Special Investigators. In the past the elite team always watched each other's backs. ...