DOA: Dead or Alive (2006, Fantasy Martial Arts Action Movie) – 4/10 movie review

Cast / crew Director: Corey Yuen Writer (Screenplay) Based on the video game by Tecmo: J.F. Lawton Writer (Screenplay) Based on the video game by Tecmo: Adam Gross Writer (Screenplay) Based on the video game by Tecmo: Seth Gross Writer (Story) Based on the video game by Tecmo: J.F. Lawton Producer: Jeremy Bolt Producer: Paul W.S. Anderson Producer: Robert Kulzer Producer: Bernd Eichinger Producer: Mark A. Altman Jaime Pressly: Tina Armstrong Holly Valance: Christie Allen Sarah Carter: Helena Douglas Eric Roberts: Donovan Natassia Malthe: Ayane Matthew Marsden: Max Steve Howey: Weatherby Kosugi Kane Takeshi: Ryu Hayabusa Colin Chou: Hayate Devon Aoki: Kasumi

DOA: Dead or Alive (2006) A group of the world’s best fighters are invited to participate in DOA, a fight tournament. Kasumi has greater reason to go than most as her brother took part previously and lost his life but she knows he was far too good for that to have happened. 4/10 Corey Yuen was a canny choice for this female-oriented action movie as he has directed a number of inventively choreographed and surprisingly emotionally successful action movies starring women in the past. However, this movie has no such investment in character development or story and becomes a series of reasonably nice-looking fight sequences (Holly Valance ended up with the best ones) strung together with a plot that is impressively unsuccessful. This movie contains mild swear words and strong but stylised and clearly unrealistic violence and sensuality, brief mild nudity. Classified 15 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over.

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