The Big Easy
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Movie Reviews of The Big Easy
Movie Review: Cajun Film, Thrilling and Sexy -
Summary: 4 Stars
Released in 1987, The Big Easy is a smooth, rich thriller with a great gumbo of characters. The two stars are fantastic: Dennis Quaid, is perfect as New Orleans police Lieutenant Remy McSwain, and Ellen Barkin is Anne Osborn, a beautiful but somewhat clumsy Louisiana District Attorney sent to investigate police corruption.
In the opening scenes, a hood's murder starts a gangland drug war. Smart and sexy Detective Remy McSwain is out to find who is behind it. Ann Osborn, a district attorney from northern Louisiana shows up in his office the next day. She has been sent to investigate New Orleans Police Corruption. Remy wants to do his job the usual way, sort of off-beat and over the line. Anne is there to be a stickler on ethics. They are opposites in personality yet the chemistry between them is there.
As they work together through a mass of inter-twisted threads of evidence, family secrets and white lies they realize that higher ups in the Police Department are part of the crime. Together they solve the crime and discover the dark secret of what is going on.
A satisfying rich story.
Movie Review: Suspenseful. Cajun. Slick. Deadly.
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is a drama in the classic sense of the word: it begins in order and ends in disorder. And it occurs against the backdrop of N'awlins - the Big Easy. You can almost hear the nightly raindrops spattering on the greasy sidewalks.
Dennis Quaid is a good cop walking the fine line between integrity and corruption - playing at the edges. Too cute by half. His winning, seductive, boyish smile and easy charm make him a perfect foil for the career minded, straight-laced Assistant District Attorney (Ellen Barkin).
But the truth is elusive in New orleans. Things aren't always what they seem and somewhere along the line, choices will be made. Big choices. In the Big Easy. Someone's likely to pay the price. A Big Price.
The film starts out light and breezy but quickly turns dark and sinister when the plot thickens and danger strikes too close to home.
The leads are engaging and winning. The plot is predictable but engaging. And the mood is dark, like New Orleans herself, at night, in the rain, spattering on the greasy sidewalk...
Movie Review: New Orleans is a Marvellous Environment for Coincidence
Summary: 4 Stars
As many reviewers note, New Orleans police drama "The Big Easy" exudes Cajun charm and Big Easy atmosphere enough to make you taste the Oyster Po'Boys and Chicory Coffee! But the fabulous capture of local ambience is not in and of itself what makes this opus a tip-top choice for every DVD library.
Big Easy is a fine police drama/romance/morality play in and of itself. Dennis Quaid is a sexy young police Lieutenant named Remy McSwain. he's been a good guy but the toll of little gratuities and favors is adding up. Can he redeem himself to help equally sexy Assistant DA Ellen Barkin solve a police corruption case.
A top-notch supporting cast includes Ned Beatty, John Goodman and the absolutely magnificent little role for Charles Ludlam as attorney Lamar Parmentel.
Remy oozes oleaginous charm as part of a huge family of cops and firemen. That, his gator obsession (note the props and decor carefully!) just fit so well with the catchy Xydeco soundtrack. Don't miss this film. An overlooked classic of the 80's!
Movie Review: "Just relax, darlin'. This is the Big Easy. Folks have a certain way o' doin' things down here."
Summary: 4 Stars
"The Big Easy" (1987) directed by Jim McBride is a very sexy thriller/neo noir -southern style. I always wanted to visit New Orleans and The Big Easy, "where they do things differently" and its Cajun music are the stars of the movie. Two hot and talented actors (Dennis Quaid at his sexiest) as Det. Remy McSwain, of New Orleans Homicide and criminally underrated Ellen Barkin (Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s office investigating corruption charges against Remy) are incredibly believable in their erotic scenes that make the film deservingly famous. Ned Beatty, John Goodman, and Grace Zabriskie are the part of the first-rate cast in this very decent even if predictable Crime / Action / Thriller / Mystery /Romance
Movie Review: Nice cop thriller with sex appeal
Summary: 4 Stars
This New Orleans-flavored thriller benefits from the great chemistry of stars Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin as she investigates suspected police corruption and widespread graft high up in the department's hierarchy. Quaid's wild, bad-boy cop role clashes with Barkin's straight arrow by-the-book district attorney although they do manage a few steamy bedroom scenes that certainly look real enough. A local drug war drawn along racial lines is another angle in the film which eventually puts Quaid and Barkin on the same team and from there the movie pretty much evolves into a buddy-cop type urban vehicle. The leads play off each other very well and Barkin's trademark crooked smile is nice to see even if the plot is a bit trite.