Death Toll (2008)

User Rating:

2.3/10   

Director:

Phenomenon

Writers:

Anthony Faia III (script revision)
Dan Garcia (writer)

Release Date:

15 April 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

The crime lords of New Orleans just met their match.

Plot:

New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed...

Plot Keywords:

Death Toll | New Orleans Louisiana | Hot Zone | Dog | Police

Cast

Lou Diamond Phillips	...	Mayor Padial
DMX	...	The Dog
Keshia Knight Pulliam	...	Mirie
Leila Arcieri	...	Detective Bathgate
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eric F. Adams	...	Officer 1
Christina Boutte
Sharice Henry Chasi	...	Reporter
Gene Christensen	...	Councilman McGraw
Aron Biedenharn Coates	...	Campaign Advisor
Jarred Coates	...	TV Cameraman
Lisa Marie Dupree	...	Agent Manning
Zacharias Foppe	...	Thug 1
Jeff Galpin	...	Agent Sax
Dan Garcia	...	Carmello
Bridget Hall
Jessica Heap	...	Councilman's Assistant
Oneal A. Isaac	...	Chief Newsome
Albert 'Dat Tim' Johnson	...	Wild Bill
Armando Leduc	...	Latin drug dealer
Dallas Montgomery	...	Agent 1
Brittany M. Parker	...	Cheryl
Shauna Rappold	...	Reporter
Alec Rayme	...	Detective Coulon
Suleman Sol Virani	...	The Dominican
Margo Swisher	...	AUSA Stone
Cindy Williamson	...	Press conference reporter
Cliff Zimowski	...	City Reporter

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language, brief drug use and some sexual content/nudity.

Runtime:

Greece:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:MA | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:R16

Filming Locations:

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Company:

HK Pictures

Dreadful

Perhaps the best indication of this film's quality lies in the fact that even DMX, who is second-billed, doesn't bother to show up long enough to have any interactions with any of the other characters; instead, he occasionally pops up as a talking head in a dark room, pontificating about life and death. Lou Diamond Phillips, who is first-billed, appears for a total of no more than 10 minutes and cashes probably the easiest paycheck of his life. Although "Death Toll" is billed as an ACTION film on IMDb, there is not even ONE small decent action sequence to be found, just a few (badly directed) shootings. Let me repeat: there is NO ACTION in this "action" movie. It's more of a drama - one, however, where all the characters are stereotypes (from the idealistic mayor - Lou - and the lazy police officers to the career-driven female assistant DA and the vulgar, mindless, illiterate drug pushers), where the dialogue cannot be followed without subtitles (either because of "da hood" lingo or because the constant rap music drowns it out), and where most of the cast is made up by rappers. The only bright spots in this positively dreadful film are the absolutely gorgeous Leila Arcieri and Keshia Knight Pulliam - if they were given more to do, I might have given "Death Toll" more than 0.5 out of 4 stars.