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Legendary Hong Kong action director and choreographer Corey Yuen brings Tecmo's best-selling video-game franchise to the big screen in a martial arts extravaganza featuring an impressive quartet of fe... read more read more...male fighters including Devon Aoki, Sarah Carter, Jaime Pressly, and Holly Valance. Tina (Pressly), Christie (Valance), Kasumi (Aoki), and Helena (Carter) are four skilled martial artists whose outwardly sexy appearances betray their true lethal natures. When the fearsome females each receive an invitation to take part in an illegal martial arts competition to be staged on a remote Asian island, the prospect of a ten-million-dollar top prize is only sweetened by the fact that they will be facing off against some of the toughest fighters on the planet. Now, in order to defend their honor and search for the answers to life's greatest mysteries, Tina, Christie, Kasumi, and Helena will check their inhibitions at the beach and prepare for a series of fights that will test not only their strength, stamina, and endurance, but the very foundation of their dedication to the martial arts as well. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 26 min.

Directed by: Corey Yuen

Release Date: June 15, 2007

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DVD Release Date: September 4, 2007

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  • jmanard52
    January 6, 2010
    jmanard52
    Kevin nash was funny . . Eric Roberts was funny . .the whole movie was more fun than it shouldve been oh wait it wasnt a comedy??
  • phubbs1
    May 14, 2012
    phubbs1
    Yep this is a videogame adaptation alright, if its possible this is even more cheesy and ridiculous than 'Mortal Kombat' and 'Tekken' put together. Based on one of the more weaker 'beat em up's' which is famous for having very realistic boobs on the female fighters. I don't reall... read morey know anymore as I've never really played this fighter, a poor man's 'Tekken' methinks.

    The plot is...well it doesn't really matter does it, like all beat em up adaptations its purely and simply about the fights whilst the plot is meaningless poo and completely incomprehensible. The same can be said for the actual videogames of course but you play them for fun whilst making a pathetic film with bottom of the barrel actors is another inexcusable matter.

    Its aimed at kids so as you can guess there is no real fighting whatsoever, its all nice and gentle with no violence or actual hitting in anyway really. I've haven't seen so much lame ass cgi and wire work for some time, couple that with hilariously bad costumes on some characters, close to the bone skimpy outfits on some female characters (that's all good), your usual exotic locations mixed with the ever popular Eastern arenas such as the bamboo forest (again) and the usual mix of cliched unoriginal fighters ('DOA' was a late entry into the beat em up world).

    Its all very colourful with lots of flashing digital effects and stupid onscreen videogame type imagery just in case you forgot your watching a shitty videogame adaptation. The most unforgivable issue here though is the fact the fights are so poor and fake looking, the female cast maybe gorgeous and semi famous (Holly Valance) but they can't do the moves and they can't act like they can do the moves.

    It may look pretty and shiny but this still manages to rank below most other crappy videogame films because its so dumb and vacant ('MK' and 'Tekken' had some grit at least). Had it come along earlier (like its actual videogame counterpart) then it might have fared slightly better, its still not as bad as 'Street Fighter'.
  • LoughnerWasLucid
    March 27, 2011
    LoughnerWasLucid
    Devon Aoki's acting is more predictable than my balls in a hot-tub. this is a movie called "dead or alive: dead or alive." There is also a black guy with a green dinosaur-spike mow-hawk who thinks everybody wants to fight him or blow him. im sure theres a real world audition tape... read more of him somewhere.
  • ScoopOnline
    December 11, 2009
    ScoopOnline
    OUTSTANDING!
  • 3niR
    November 5, 2009
    3niR
    Cheap!
  • MovieGeek13
    March 19, 2009
    MovieGeek13
    DOA: Dead On Arrival. The person who chose this movie to watch has now been banned from ever having this privilege.
  • rezpatriot
    February 18, 2009
    rezpatriot
    Had it not been for three very beautiful and extremely fit ladies and some funny lines in the scipt i doubt this film would have been released, i didn't even watch the end once I guessed Tina wasn't going to win the competition, who knows what happens, and do i really care? no
  • LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    October 6, 2008
    LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    Ayane: I am your servant but if you leave the compound, I am honor-bound to kill you.

    You'll probably love this film...If you're a 9 year old kid drooling over Jaime Pressly in a bikini that is. This film has got to be the stupidest action movie ever. I mean that's saying... read more a lot because I've seen almost all of Seagal's straight-to-video movies and at least the guys there had the decency to respect the law of Physics but this one, they just trashed Newton and went crazy with the ridiculous fight scenes and all that comes along with it. I mean, jumping off a cliff which is higher than the Empire State building and surviving the fall in the deep waters below, I'm no scientist but I think it is considered fatal if you jump that high in that altitude, its like hitting solid ground.

    All lead actresses were bland, hollow and annoying. The only good thing about them is that volleyball scene and that's that. Yes they're pretty but its sad to say their assets were wasted bigtime on this one. I'm talking about physical assets. If you're talking about acting skills, it is zilch.

    1/5
  • arashxak
    August 4, 2008
    arashxak
    Based on a fighting game series, Unoriginal with a very weak plot, But It's entertaining & funny specially because of its logical flaws & plot holes and ofcourse its unrealisticness
  • ceWEBrity
    September 29, 2007
    ceWEBrity
    It's tempting to write this off as camp, but I'm not so sure, considering it's directed by a 55-year old Cantonese man who probably thinks that this is what Americans find funny and awesome in alternation.

    Well...it's funny, in a derisive "am I seriously seeing this?" kind of wa... read morey. And it's awesome like those really endearing foreigners you see at community college, who you may occasionally attempt to talk to and they just give you this awkward cute smile and return to their own little ESL-fueled world.

    I don't really know what I'm getting at here. The movie sucks, yeah, but serves its highest purpose as a punching bag for you and your cynical friends. If you're watching it for the gratuitous T&A or the badly-edited, generic action, then you are a sad person and should stay in your room forever.

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Gregory Kirschling
June 20, 2007
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly

If you only ever see one bad movie about warrior chicks who meet on a tropical isle for a fight contest, make it DOA: Dead or Alive. Full Review

Frank Scheck
June 19, 2007
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

Quantcast The plot is but an excuse for a series of elaborately choreographed fight sequences featuring a combination of digital and wire work that somehow manages to feel completely fake despite the ...

Roger Moore
June 18, 2007
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

DOA was the right title for this, acronym-bending or not. Full Review

Jeannette Catsoulis
June 18, 2007
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

There was a time when movies like DOA: Dead or Alive lurked sheepishly at schoolboy height on video store shelves, spines straining to accommodate the charms of their actresses.

Jack Mathews
June 18, 2007
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

Charlie's Angels, Survivor, American Gladiators and Girls Gone Wild are just some of the bad influences on Hong Kong action director Corey Yuen's laughably silly adaptation of the video game DOA: Dead... Full Review

John Monaghan
June 18, 2007
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

While the teen target audience may be convinced that this is exciting, the rest of us will leave the theater exhausted and with brain cells thoroughly fried. Full Review

Tom Russo
June 18, 2007
Tom Russo, Boston Globe

Corey Yuen and his writers have adapted their dubiously titled DOA: Dead or Alive from the video game series of the same name -- apparently convinced that the scraps of backstory originally scribbled ... Full Review

Gene Seymour
June 18, 2007
Gene Seymour, Newsday

DOA: Dead or Alive aspires to be nothing more than a sanctuary from thinking. Full Review

Joe Leydon
June 16, 2007
Joe Leydon, Variety

Pic is so insubstantial that it practically evaporates on screen. Full Review

Luke Y. Thompson
October 17, 2006
Luke Y. Thompson, Village Voice

The film's pretty much nonstop fighting, mostly in very little clothing, with the flair you expect from a master choreographer like Yuen. It's awesome. Full Review

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