Dead on Arrival

Im a fan of the original DOA, the 1950 one. There's nothing like the original really but it kept my interest. I laughed a few times at the bumbling gangsters and DB Sweeney. I thought for an indi it was well done. The swamp shots brought me back... i lived in New orleans for 2 years. Nice camera work and music.

This film caught my attention on my cable provider for on-demand. So I looked it up on IMDB and checked out the user reviews and noticed some nasty comments about the film. I decided to also look at the external cretics reviews for the film and noticed twice the apposite critical reviews on the film. I checked out the sources behind the critic reviews and they all checked out legit. I saw the film last night and actually enjoyed it very much, so I guess the critics were right about the film and I have no idea why some people are talking nasty about it. I think I It was an entertaining ride.

I give this film a max of 4 stars,because its a non-impressive and low cost production,with below average acting cast, a complex plot that is rather simple,but it kills itself because its too slow. what i really miss from this louisiana based d-riller is the lack of lousiana dialect in the dialouges,not a single person speaks the good ol' southern sway.not even the local police, nor even the hookers or gangsters does.that is a lousy job. its a film of money,vaccines,poisoning,hookers,fine boats and cars,blood,deceift,crooked police and shadow hals.. whats the 4 stars for? well,nice cinematography and well driven musical score (although not my taste), and some parts of the storys locations are good. wanna see it again,definately not

Watched it because of the high rating, then I realised it was obviously the cast and crew artificially bumping the IMDB score up.

Very average movie all around from actors, casting, premise, dialogue, setting, story progression etc etc

Not worth a watch unless you are really bored!

If there is one thing certain about the reviews for this movie is that the people that scored it the highest possible are members of the staff that worked on this movie, or at least know somebody that did. Dead On Arrival is just an average movie. The story could have been something if they had put a bit more effort into it. But what brings this movie really down is the acting. Poor if not mediocre, that is the least you can say. The movie starts good though, with some intriguing things happening, but the more you get to the end of it the more you can see that at one point they didn't care that much anymore about making a good movie. So to me it had potential but in the end it failed due to a lack of talent and bad acting.