Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Werner Herzog directs this darkly comic thriller loosely based on Abel Ferrara&s & Bad Lieutenant& (1992) 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 Senegalese immigrants & taking on local drug kingpin Big Fate (Xzibit) Eva Mendes co-stars as Mc Donagh&s troubled prostitute girlfriend Frankie