To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This is a thoroughly charming movie. It is a musical, a police drama, a murder mystery, a romantic comedy, and a story about a man who undergoes a transformation to maturity. It takes place in New Orleans. The movie is steeped in things New Orleans. The strong local colour gives everything an exotic other-worldliness, for the example the stripper bar with the gigantic women, or the voodoo heroin dealer with the gigantic number of offspring, a elderly "wise guy" (Mafiso) in yellow golf togs. Dennis Quaid is such a handsome slick charmer, that you can't help but be charmed. Underneath he is a kind, considerate, likable character, though that is not immediately obvious. Unfortunately, nearly all the actors are affecting their accents. If you are familiar with the accents of the area, they often do not ring true. The accents kick in and out at random. The DVD came with subtitles, which helped quite a bit. The food you can almost taste. The music makes you want to get up and dance. This is an old movie, but it feels like a modern movie made about 1986. It contains a classic joke, that ranks up there with "I'll have what she's having". I laughed and laughed for about 5 minutes. Hint: it involves a man startled while scrounging in a refrigerator. There is something for everyone in this movie.

The Big Easy is directed by Jim McBride and written by Daniel Petrie Jr. It stars Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman and Ned Beatty. Music is scored by Brad Fiedel and cinematography by Affonso Beato.Remy McSwain (Quaid) is a slightly corrupt New Orleans cop, who whilst investigating the murder of a mob man, finds himself under scrutiny by assistant district attorney Anne Osborne (Barkin). The waters start to become muddied when the pair begin to have a passionate affair, just as the can opens and worms spill out everywhere.It's an odd film at times, a bit too jovial to be considered proper neo-noir, and Quaid's Southern accent takes some getting used too. It's also nearly derailed in quality as conventionality dominates the last quarter of film.Yet judged on its own thriller terms it entertains well enough whilst also having some neat technical touches to help it along. Petrie's script contains spiky dialogue and a number of bravura sequences light up the otherwise standard crooked cop story.McBride dose good work on this, he opens his film up with a cracker of a camera tracker, and he makes good use of the New Orleans locations. He also has a good sense of prop choices to help the mood, none more so than with a scene involving Mardi Gras costumes, whilst he gets strength for the film by garnering tense and sexy performances out of Quaid and Barkin. Support actors also leave good marks, with Goodman as a cop colleague dominating the screen and Charles Ludlam almost stealing the film as McSwain's dry and near sleazy lawyer. Soundtrack, too, is well thought out, with the Cajun flavours spicing up the sweaty Orleans stew. 7/10

Most of the people writing here seemed to enjoy this out of all proportion to its actual worth. It's a very pedestrian story of police corruption and police corruption in a Southern state where - as far as non-American audiences are concerned - police corruption is as natural as corn-pone and hominy grits. Outsider Ellen Barkin - an assistant District Attorney sent to root out the corruption - is ready to compromise her position by sleeping with one of the suspects within hours of meeting him and even when she sees with her own eyes that he is on the pad and literally prosecutes him in court, she still continues to sleep with him. Realistic? Without doubt and if you don't believe me ask Elvis, he's busing tables in Denny's even as we speak.

Jim McBride's film 'The Big Easy' is an essentially light-hearted crime thriller that integrates elements of romantic comedy with an exaggerated portrayal of life in New Orleans. Ultimately, however, it can't quite decide to play it purely for laughs, so there are also some gruesome scenes and a story of a cop's disenchantment with a life of petty corruption; it's hard to take these seriously in the context of the film as a whole. Whether you like this movie probably depends on what you think of its leads: Dennis Quaid's cocky policeman and Ellen Barkin's very 1980s lawyer. Personally, I'd feel quite easy about giving them a miss.