DOA: Dead or Alive Reviews

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 | Original Score: B

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.

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

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 | Original Score: 2/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Pic is so insubstantial that it practically evaporates on screen.

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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.

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An ideal vehicle for Yuen, who is a dab hand at filming imaginative hand-to-hand combat sequences.

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