“Shoot him again!  His soul is still dancing!”

Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans was one of the best films of 2009.  There. I said it.  And I know that there’s a lot of people out there who would disagree with me on this.  They would say that, at best, this film was memorable because of Nicolas Cage’s manic performance and nothing else.  Well, you know what? 

Those people are wrong.  End of story.

Here’s one of my favorite scenes from Bad Lieutenant, one that features everything that makes this film one of the unacknowledged masterpieces of the 21st Century: Nicolas Cage going crazy, senseless violence, dancing souls, and an iguana.

There’s always an iguana.