DOA: Dead or Alive
DOA: DEAD OR ALIVEÂ (15)
D: Cory Yeun
Universal/Dimension (Paul W. S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt,
Robert Kulzer, Bernd Eichinger & Mark A. Altman) Â Â Â Â Â Â
USA/UK/Germany 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 2006
87 mins
Action
W: J. F. Lawton, Adam Gross & Seth Gross [based on
characters created by Tomonobu Itagaki]
DP: Venus Keung & Chan Chi Yang
Ed: Eddie Hamilton
Mus: Junkie XL
Devon Aoki (Kasumi), Holly Valance (Christie), Jaime
Pressly (Tina Armstrong), Sarah Carter (Helena Douglas), Eric Roberts (Dr. Victor Donovan)
For this movie, D.O.A. is an acronym
for Dead or Alive. Usually it stands for Dead On Arrival. The second meaning sums up the movie, more or less.
Paul W. S. Anderson has shaped his entire career out of
adapting video games into crap movies. For this, he hands the directorial reins to Cory Yeun and takes on a producer role, but the result still isn't too far adrift than Anderson's
output.
There's lots of scantily clad ladies, fight scenes and
terrible acting performances with very little in the way of plot.
Perhaps you need to be a fan of either the original
Japanese series, or just like looking at semi-naked ladies to enjoy this. Either way, it's only marginally better than Mortal Kombat & Streetfighter.
4/10
