You're invited... A number of fighters are invited to DOA an invitational martial arts contest where combatants are then pooled against one another in a knock-out style tournament: the conquered is sent home while the conqueror progresses to the subsequent round. Four scantily-clad female fighters begin as rivals but consequently find themselves teaming up against an altogether mightier force..... Check your brains at the door and engage your sense of shameless high-kicking fun: it's the Hollywood interpretation of Tecmo's videogame brawler Dead or Alive!
'Dead Or Alive', based on a popular arcade beat em' up and produced by none other than Paul W.S. Anderson ('Mortal Kombat', 'Resident Evil') exists only to depict scantily clad women engaged in a variety of stimulating activities (i.e. fighting in super slow-mo, playing beach volleyball, taking hot showers or fighting in super slow-mo). Cheap thrills aplenty, but also a bare bones storyline and some reasonably accomplished fight scenes. The minimal plot involves our buxom beauties: former singer Holly Vallance, an expressionless Devon Akoi and 'My Names Is Earl' star Jamie Pressley, enter the 'DOA' martial arts tournament held on a remote Pacific island and run by shadowy super-villain Eric Roberts. Each girl has something to do or prove, we even get to see the island's home, though by no means homely, girl Sarah Carter in action, amazingly, Carter went onto find serious work after this and can now be seen playing a novice lawyer working for James Woods in hit legal series 'Shark'. Sexist and lowbrow it may be, but for those who regard 'Maxim' as the finest literary periodical since Yale's 'Spectator', its a dream come true. Some of the highlights include a well edited 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' homage with Akoi taking on pretty Natassia Malthe (last seen crossing swords with Jennifer Garner in 'Elektra'), a beach brawl in the rain between Valance and Carter, and though it was good to see legendary 'Mortal Kombat' star and former martial arts world champion Robin Shou, its a bittersweet cameo, as he's reduced to comedic bad guy status, fortunately the one time Lui Kang only suffers three minutes of onscreen humiliation at the hands of Jamie Pressley. Coming in at a super-trim 65 minutes, 'DOA' is practically a short film, and moves at such a pace that you won't have time to notice how it fails on almost every conceivable level. Mildly enjoyable trash, add an extra star if you're a fan of the game.
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Martial arts action in the latest Hollywood adaptation of a video game. The world's top martial artists are set to compete in an invitational contest on a mysterious island. However, similar to I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, they are dropped on the island out of a plane and left to make their own way to the fight stage. After a grueling jungle slog, the fighting begins in a series of sudden death rounds. The film version is centred upon four female contestants who, at the start, are set to knock each other out but end up forging an alliance in order to combat an unforeseen obstacle.
Based on the popular video game, DOA – DEAD OR ALIVE finds three high-kicking females competing in a martial arts tournament on a secluded island.
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