The Big Easy

This movie is really not that bad.  In fact, it's a pretty good movie.  It's the accents that are bad.

 

Happy Mardi Gras, everyone.

 

The Big Easy is a movie about a corrupt police unit in New Orleans.  Dennis Quaid is a homicide lieutenant that takes a few liberties with the law.  Parking violations, traffic violations, and taking some money on the side.  Ellen Barkin is the assistant district attorney investigating a potential corruption ring within the department.

 

Quaid is on a case where a wiseguy turns up dead over some heroin.  All signs point to a rival crime boss in the dispute.  During the case, Quaid is framed for an extortion charge.  Which doesn't help him with Barkin since she has an inquiry into the department.  The extortion case gets thrown out and Quaid solves the original case concerning the heroin AND Barkin finds out who the cops were that tampered with all of the evidence.  It all wraps up nicely.

 

I just couldn't take the fake cajun accents by a lot of the cast.  And if it wasn't a fake cajun accent, it was a fake southern accent.

 

I give the movie 3 1/2 out of 5 ettoufee.

 

I give the accents 0 out of 5 roux.