A sexy, light-hearted crime thriller, The Big Easy now seems a little dated and doesn’t seem to have a strong identity in terms of it narrative or characters. At times, a dark story of police corruption, the next moment it almost touches on romantic comedy territory. Perhaps, though, this is closer to real life in the way crime and romance in one person’s life can produce very different moods within the space of a few hours. But Ellen Barkin as Anne Osborne also comes across as both professionally tough and emotionally fragile – again, an interesting contradiction but a frustrating one.
Perhaps I just didn’t really like it, as I know it has a good reputation. For me it was much like Dennis Quaid’s New Orleans accent – it can’t decide quite what it’s trying to be and so doesn’t commit itself either way.
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