In case you haven't seen The Untouchables, first thing's first, get to Netflix, because it's amazing. Second, and in case you can't tell from his extremely Irish garb, Sean Connery plays an Irishman living in 1920s and 30s Chicago. It's an incredibly cool film about how a select group of men strive to bring down the regime of notorious mobster Al Capone, and it's arguably one of the best performances in the entire career of Connery. So he had to have gotten the accent even sort of right...right? Not even a little. You'd have thought that a man born and raised in Scotland, ancestral love-hate brother of Ireland would have at least been able to give a good crack at the accent, but no, what happened instead was an accent which was voted by Empire magazine as the worst in movie history. It's almost like he forgets that's he's supposed to be speaking in a different accent at times, but still gives it a go halfway through a line. So what you're left with is a confused, almost schizophrenic delivery. It's lucky for the man that he was just so good at the whole acting malarkey to get by regardless of his magnificently bizarre attempt at what I can only refer to as Blarney Twang.
