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DOA: Dead or Alive
The Weinstein Company

DOA: Dead or Alive reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 38 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.3 out of 10
based on 8 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for pervasive martial arts and action violence, some sexuality and nudity

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

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.)


GENRE(S): Action  |  Adventure  
WRITTEN BY: J.F. Lawton (also story)
Adam Gross
Seth Gross
 
DIRECTED BY: Corey Yuen  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: September 11, 2007 
Theatrical: June 15, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 87 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA / Germany / UK 

What The Critics Said

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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.
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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.
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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.
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50
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
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.
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38
TV Guide Ken Fox
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.
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30
Variety Joe Leydon
So insubstantial that it practically evaporates on screen.
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25
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
"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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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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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 28 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Anonymous Moss gave it a10:
i haven't played the game so i guess i can't really compare, but i personally loved the movie! the acting was bad yes but i'm a sucker for fighting movies with girls who can actually kick ass as the main character, and i think this movie did an amazing job with that despite the not so great acting.

William T gave it a6:
It's so horrendously silly, shallow and riddled with slow-motion effects FOR EVERY SINGLE FIGHT that you can't help but enjoy it somehow.

Rainy D gave it a7:
It's certainly not as bad as many might imagine.A fun little flick with good action and decent enough acting.

[Anonymous] gave it a7:
A throwaway, but an entertaininng one. Why? Corey Yuen's choreography gives it some fighting punch the acting, FX and cast can't provide.

Dan M. gave it a9:
This is an atrociously bad movie. The plot makes barely any sense, elements are introduced, then ignored, and it is just on the whole ridiculous. In short, its a great bad fighting video game to movie transition, up there with its cousins, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. It does fall a bit short of the pinnacle of comic to movie transition that is Tank Girl though.

P CLASS="usercomment">Brianna gave it a10:
I think you're missing the point. This is exactly what I'd expect a movie based on DOA to be. Have you ever even played DOA? I thought this was hilarious. I hope they do a Soul Calibur movie next.

[Anonymous] gave it a2:
It's pretty bad. Chicks aren't even that hot.

Chinz gave it a0:
You have GOT to be kidding me. worst movie ever. saw it at a friend's house for her party and holy crap. Just don't. its not hot women and fighting. It is suck(movie) and sucker(whoever is foolish enough to buy this). don't watch it. There is no visible plot or acting either, not even good music. I haven't been this bored since I saw Alone in the Dark.

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