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DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
Director: Cory Yuen
Movie review
From Time Out London
Geordie Paul WS Anderson has made a career out of porting popular computer games over to celluloid – none of them any good, mind. This time, however, he’s adopted a production credit and passed the directorial baton to ‘Transporter’ director Corey Yuen. ‘DOA’, the game, is a 3-D beat-’em-up featuring a bevy of athletic, buxom beauties in skintight leotards kicking seven shades out of each other. It’s an ideal vehicle for Yuen, who is a dab hand at filming imaginative hand-to-hand combat sequences.The game itself is plotless, so some semblance of storyline was required. Three pretty kick-ass chicks are invited to compete in a clandestine martial arts tournament presided over by a smarmy games master. They compete as rivals but soon resort to pooling their resources in an effort to defeat an evil within. It’s all poppycock, but that’s to be expected. Besides, most hormonal lads will only be interested in two things: the wall-to-wall cartoon fisticuffs and the content of the characters’ costumes.
Author: Derek Adams
Time Out London Issue 1882: September 13-20 2006
Cast & crew
Director: Cory Yuen
Producer: Mark A Altman, Paul WS Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Bernd Eichinger, Robert Kulzer
Cast: Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance, Sarah Carter, Devon Aoki, Eric Roberts, Natassia Malthe, Matthew Marsden, Brian J White, Collin Chou, Kane Kosugi full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 87 mins
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