DOA: Dead or Alive
Directed by Corey Yuen
- LivewireAdmin11 September 2025They nailed the casting (for the most part) and I really enjoyed how some of the characters were paired off into sub-stories—Tina and Zack, Christie and Max, Kasumi and Hyabusa. Why did they go with Eric Roberts though? That casting felt out of place. The fight choreography here is well done and who doesn't love a remote, tropical island setting for a fight tournament? All in all, worth a watch for hardcore fans of the series. Letterboxd: FilmPhanPA
- Albert Edward “Albie” Mc Manus31 May 2025Look I get the reasoning from the critics and the bad reviews. Making a live action from a video has never gone well or near to the script. But having said that, if you watch the movie outside the knowledge of the video game, it's actually quite nice. The fighting scenes are a bit over the top but very nice flowing within the storyline crafted by the movie. Granted that the storyline is tuned way up to God mode, but it resolves itself very well with a satisfying downfall of the Villian. The choice of actors and actresses are also common for that era, very overly masculine and very sexy. I might be in the rarity for watching movies without their baggage context and applying extra nuance in my judgement, but this movie remains in my top 10 of all time favourites, right behind Battleship.
DOA: Dead or Alive Trivia
DOA: Dead or Alive was released on 7 September 2006.
DOA: Dead or Alive was directed by Corey Yuen.
DOA: Dead or Alive has a runtime of 86m.
DOA: Dead or Alive was produced by Paul W. S. Anderson, Robert Kulzer, Bernd Eichinger, Jeremy Bolt, Mark A. Altman.
The world's best fighters are invited to DOA, an invitational martial arts contest. There, four female rival fighters will have to work together to uncover the secret that the organizer of the tournament is trying to hide.
The key characters in DOA: Dead or Alive are Kasumi (Devon Aoki), Tina Armstrong (Jaime Pressly), Max (Matthew Marsden).
DOA: Dead or Alive is rated 15.
DOA: Dead or Alive is an Action, Adventure, Thriller film.
DOA: Dead or Alive has an audience rating of 3.6 out of 10.
DOA: Dead or Alive had a budget of US$21M.
DOA: Dead or Alive has made US$7.6M at the box office.