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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Miracle Pictures
Salesrank: 81009
Released: February 2, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Vicious and ingenious police flick features Harvey Keitel as an impossibly surly and dysfuntional New York detective on the take. His focus on fine cigars and his prized possession - a Central Park West apartment paid for with drug dealer money are great props for a dirty cop. The story revolves around him and a punk kid (John Lyndon - Johnnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols), who claims to have killed several narcotics cops. A brutal film, not for sensitive viewers.
Corrupt Lieutenant Reviews:
aka Copkiller 
2009-10-27 - Gray market discs such as this offer no commentary, deleted scenes or other bonus features. Dubs are "best available source" and can vary from very good to only fair.
CORRUPT LIENTENANT
Stars Harvey Keitel and punk rocker Johnny Rotten. Keitel is a country music-loving NYC detective who imprisons and tortures cop-killer Johnny, but the masochistic creep-o only begs for more abuse. An odd, violent little movie.
Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.
(5.6) Corrupt Lieutenant ("Copkiller") (Italy-1983) - Harvey Keitel/John Lydon/Nicole Garcia/Leonard Mann/Sylvia Sidney
many different titles for this excellent film 
2006-04-24 - This was originally titled THE ORDER OF DEATH, after the novel upon which it is based; then it was released, I think, in Europe under the title COPKILLER. Then the pansies in th US re-named it CORRUPT. And now someone has obviously decided to try to cash in on the Harvey Keitel angle and call this "Corrupt Lieutenant" in a desperate attempt to make audiences think this is a knock-off of Bad Lieutenant. Which is all really not needed because this movie--no matter what it is called--is a very intelligent and engrossing thriller. It boasts a pair of fine performances from Harvey Keitel and the criminally underappreciated John Lydon, formerly Johhny Rotten. He gives an excellent performance as the man who may or may not be the dememnted killer. All in all this is a nifty, over-looked police suspenser well worth seeking out.
