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Title: Wherefor art thou, Oscar?
Review: Should get some sort of Razzie award for the worst set of Southern accents by an entire cast since "Hurry Sundown". Unfortunately though, this film lacks the campy awfulness of that film and substitutes pompous awfulness instead. Watching James Gandofini struggle with his accent does at least have some comic appeal. This film certainly has one of the finer casts put together in some time, but the sum of the parts is far greater than the whole, sort of 12 actors in search of an Oscar. This is indeed Shakespearean in the sense that it is a "tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing", amply illustrated in the final image of the blood of Willy Stark and his killer slowly running through the grooves in the Seal of Louisiana embedded in the floor only to run together.
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