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DOA: Dead or Alive (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 40

Fresh: 14

Rotten:26

Average Rating: 4.5/10

Consensus: With a ridiculous plot and comical acting, checking one's brain at the door is required before watching DOA: Dead or Alive.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for pervasive martial arts and action violence, some sexuality and nudity

Runtime: 87 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Jun 15, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $260,713

Synopsis: Based on a popular series of video games, DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE is set on an exotic island where a group of extraordinary men and women face off against each other in a single-elimination fighting... Based on a popular series of video games, DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE is set on an exotic island where a group of extraordinary men and women face off against each other in a single-elimination fighting competition for a $10 million winner-take-all prize. The film focuses on three main competitors: Tina Armstrong (Jaime Pressly), a professional wrestler who wants to prove to herself, and the world, that she's not a fake; Princess Kasumi (Devon Aoki), who has gone against the laws of her kingdom by escaping on her own in order to search for her missing brother (Collin Chou), a former DOA participant; and Christie (Holly Valance), who, along with the mysterious Max (Matthew Marsden), is more interested in the $100 million locked away in a hidden vault than in the fighting prize. But the winner is going to have to get past some of the toughest men in the world, including Tina's father (real-life professional wrestler Kevin Nash) and island favorite Bayman (real-life six-time World's Strongest Man champion Derek Boyer). Meanwhile, behind the scenes, geeky nerd Weatherby (Steve Howey) is rooting for Helena (Sarah Carter), whose late father started the event, which is now in the hands of the questionably motivated Donovan (Eric Roberts). DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE was helmed by longtime Hong Kong actor, director, writer, and action director Corey Yuen (THE TRANSPORTER, KISS OF THE DRAGON) and features music by Junkie XL. [More]

Starring: Devon Aoki, Jaime Pressly, Matthew Marsden, Sarah Carter

Starring: Devon Aoki, Jaime Pressly, Matthew Marsden, Sarah Carter, Holly Valance, Natassia Malthe, Eric Roberts, Collin Chou, Kane Kosugi

Director: Corey Yuen

Director: Corey Yuen
Screenwriter: J.F. Lawton, Adam Gross, Seth Gross, Granz Henman
Producer: Mark A. Altman, Paul W.S. Anderson
Studio: Weinstein Company

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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

A metaphorical training bra for ogling boys - along with second childhood Dirty Old Aged men - DOA gives new meaning to females hooking up and hanging out, when it comes to airborne upper body intimate wear and its gravity defying plastic contents alike

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09/12/07
Prairie Miller
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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
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06/30/07
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle

It's all about as thrilling as watching the countryside whiz by in the car.

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06/25/07
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International

There is enough masturbation fodder here to keep many 11-year-old kids who have yet to find daddy's porn stash very happy.

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06/23/07
Michael Ferraro
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06/23/07
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06/23/07
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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.

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06/20/07
Gregory Kirschling
Entertainment Weekly
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DOA is a bad, cheesy and cheap production that nevertheless has enough goofy appeal to warrant watching with your buddies...

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06/20/07
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06/19/07
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DOA was the right title for this, acronym-bending or not.

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06/18/07
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

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.

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06/18/07
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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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 or Alive.

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06/18/07
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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Charlie's Angels 3 it ain't, but big up to director Corey Yuen for crafting a splashy and appropriately trashy fighting flick that chicks can cheer for.

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06/18/07
James Diers
E! Online

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.

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06/18/07
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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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 by the gamers were plenty.

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06/18/07
Tom Russo
Boston Globe
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DOA: Dead or Alive aspires to be nothing more than a sanctuary from thinking.

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06/18/07
Gene Seymour
Newsday
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Call it the Guilty Pleasure of the year for me. Hell, it's a heck of a lot more entertaining than Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

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06/17/07
Scott Weinberg
Cinematical

If Corey Yuen believed in truth in advertising, ala Snakes on a Plane, this flick would have a name like Jiggly Babes Kick Butt. The stuff that post-pubescent dreams are made of.

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06/17/07
Kam Williams
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