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DOA: Dead or Alive

Starring Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance, Sarah Carter, Devon Aoki, Natassia Malthe, Eric Roberts, Matthew Marsden, and Brian J. White

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for pervasive martial arts and action violence, some sexuality and nudity

The Weinstein Company
Action  |  Adventure
87 minutes | Color
USA / Germany / UK
Released In Theaters June 15, 2007

Based on Tecmo's best-selling "Dead or Alive" videogame franchise, DOA: Dead or Alive features four beautiful women who begin as rivals in a secret invitational-only martial arts contest, but find themselves teaming up with one another against a sinister force. (Weinstein Co.)

WRITTEN BY
J.F. Lawton (also story)
Adam Gross
Seth Gross

DIRECTED BY
Corey Yuen

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

38 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson
Praise be to director Corey Yuen (The Transporter) for delivering one of the year's purest entertainments -- the best butt-kicking PG-13 bikini jiggle fest since the first Charlie's Angels flick.
75 Entertainment Weekly Gregory Kirschling
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.
50 Film Threat Michael Ferraro
Sure, the dialogue is absolutely atrocious, the acting sucks, Eric Roberts is a co-star, the action is lame and the fighting is boring. But all of this makes for one hilarious viewing experience. DOA is the sort of film you’ll want to watch with a drunken crowd of your friends.
50 The New York Times
Free of blood, bruises and visible trauma, DOA revels in its fakery. And though the film presents more exuberant female flesh than hiring day at Hooters, it's strictly for titillation.
38 TV Guide
The action has more to do with digital effects than true martial artistry, and is targeted squarely at adolescent boys too young to rent porn and gamers too lazy to yank their own joysticks.
30 Variety
So insubstantial that it practically evaporates on screen.
25 New York Daily News
"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.
0 Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt
A piece of garbage and the best argument for reading books since the first pop-up appeared.

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