deager Review of Ghost of New Orleans

Ghost of New Orleans (2011)

Murder, drugs, blues, alcohol, and a ghost - what's not to like, right!

[8/10 · 1 August 2019]

It's as if they took a plot from James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels and mixed up the names a bit and actually made a pretty decent movie. Terrance Howard is brilliant as the neighbor across the street who spouts Shakespearean 50's noir into a mini tape recorder. It doesn't take long to figure his importance in the plot. He & Josh Lucus carry the load in this one. Lucus serves it well as the very good but very drunk most of the time cop, because I shot a kid by mistake during a ampt up perp chase that he mistakenly walked in behind me on and I must drink mass quantities of bad liquor to hide my quilt but I still dream about it so set me up again bar keep! He sees the ghost while on a stake out, thinks its his drunken hallucination. He soon realizes it is the ghost of a murdered, beautiful singer (Lake Bell, doing her best) who begs him to solve her murder. He is also suspicious & therefore checking out Terrance for some reason or another. They become friendly and the serial killer keeps killing and Lucus begins his sobriety to find the murderer of the pretty girl, then stumbles along into the serial killer killings. With a number of characters, including Gary Elwes trying hard with the southern accent as the heavy. We have a number of suspects for both crimes. But, we all know who's who & what's what. The movie moves into a nice little film noir type mystery the bobs and weaves like the best of them. The director moves it along, doesn't waste space or time, the photographer is pretty good, sometimes the lighting gets a bit off, but nothing serious, the script is top notch I thought. Sure a few flaws, but an enjoyable who done it!