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DOA: Dead or Alive (2007)

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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 29

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

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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 8

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

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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 female 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

Sep 4, 2007

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All Critics (44) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (32) | DVD (12)

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.

June 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comments (3)
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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 obvious physical exertions of its well-trained cast.

June 19, 2007 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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DOA was the right title for this, acronym-bending or not.

June 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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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.

June 18, 2007 Comment
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.

June 18, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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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.

June 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
Detroit Free Press
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Yuen's propensity for impossible computer-generated slow-mo combat action wears thin.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

Sexed-up game adaptation is heavy on bikinis.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

DOA is actually the gender equity version of August 2007's Shoot 'Em Up! , a mindless exercise in violence with enough style and sass to get an audience over its superficial stutters.

September 23, 2007 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
PopMatters

Virtually faceless bosomy kick butt babes.

September 12, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Long Island Press

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

September 12, 2007 Full Review | Comment
WBAI Web Radio

If this flick were titled with truth in advertising in mind, ala Snakes on a Plane, it would have a name like Jiggly Babes Kick Butt. The stuff that post-pubescent dreams are made of.

September 4, 2007 Full Review Source: Mount Desert Islander | Comment
Mount Desert Islander

This film knows its genre and its audience.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment
Big Picture Big Sound

Let's hope some special form of punishment awaits the man or woman who came up with the idea of basing movies on video games.

June 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

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

June 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
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.

June 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment (1)
Film Threat

DOA might as well stand for "Dead on Arrival."

June 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | Comment
Hollywood.com

DOA is a bad, cheesy and cheap production that nevertheless has enough goofy appeal to warrant watching with your buddies...

June 20, 2007 Full Review Source: IGN Movies | Comment
IGN Movies

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.

June 18, 2007 Full Review Source: E! Online | Comment
E! Online
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Audience Reviews for DOA: Dead or Alive

Kevin nash was funny . . Eric Roberts was funny . .the whole movie was more fun than it shouldve been oh wait it wasnt a comedy??

March 22, 2007
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

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 of him somewhere.

June 2, 2009
LoughnerWasLucid

Super Reviewer

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