ign logo IGN.com | AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | GameSpy | FilePlanet | TeamXbox | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | Direct2Drive

RottenTomatoes.com

RT Bug Squash
Home Movies DVD Celebrities News Critics Photos & Trailers The Vine Forums
Box Office | Best Of | Certified Fresh | Showtimes
Register for free site & special features! | Log In | What is RT?
                       
MOVIES / ON DVD / DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE
DOA: Dead or Alive

Rate This Movie

Write a Review
Share This Movie
Add to List
Buy Poster

Bookmark and Share

DOA: Dead or Alive (2007)

36%
20%
36%
N/A
N/A
N/A
36 %
Reviews Counted: 39 Fresh: 14  Rotten:25 Average Rating: 4.5/10
 
Consensus: Checking one's brain at the door is required before watching DOA. With a ridiculous plot and comical acting, checking one's brain at the door is required before watching DOA: Dead or Alive. more
 
Runtime: 87 mins
Synopsis:
Based on a popular series of video games, DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE is set on an exotic island where a group of extraordinary men and women face off against each other in a single-elimination fighting competition for a $10 million winner-take-all prize. The film focuses on three main competitors:... [More]
Based on a popular series of video games, DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE is set on an exotic island where a group of extraordinary men and women face off against each other in a single-elimination fighting competition for a $10 million winner-take-all prize. The film focuses on three main competitors: Tina Armstrong (Jaime Pressly), a professional wrestler who wants to prove to herself, and the world, that she's not a fake; Princess Kasumi (Devon Aoki), who has gone against the laws of her kingdom by escaping on her own in order to search for her missing brother (Collin Chou), a former DOA participant; and Christie (Holly Valance), who, along with the mysterious Max (Matthew Marsden), is more interested in the $100 million locked away in a hidden vault than in the fighting prize. But the winner is going to have to get past some of the toughest men in the world, including Tina's father (real-life professional wrestler Kevin Nash) and island favorite Bayman (real-life six-time World's Strongest Man champion Derek Boyer). Meanwhile, behind the scenes, geeky nerd Weatherby (Steve Howey) is rooting for Helena (Sarah Carter), whose late father started the event, which is now in the hands of the questionably motivated Donovan (Eric Roberts). DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE was helmed by longtime Hong Kong actor, director, writer, and action director Corey Yuen (THE TRANSPORTER, KISS OF THE DRAGON) and features music by Junkie XL. [Less]

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Devon Aoki, Jaime Pressly, Sarah Carter, Holly Valance, Natassia Malthe

Director: Corey Yuen
Screenwriter: J.F. Lawton, Adam Gross, Seth Gross, Granz Henman
Producer: Mark A. Altman, Paul W.S. Anderson

DVD Info

Release:

Nov 9, 2007

[DVD Details]

Reviews

 
T-Meter Critics
 
 
Top Critics
 
 
RT Community
 
 
My Critics
 
 
My Friends
 
 
DVD
 
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Text View | 1 2 3
Arrange By: Name | Fresh | Rotten | Date | Source
 
 
Ratings Image

The performances are so wooden that things improve when Eric frickin’ Roberts turns up with a bad wig.

Full Review | Comment
09/23/06 04:05 AM
Chris Hewitt (UK)
Empire Magazine
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

A film that boys aged 12 to 15 are going to lap up thanks to endless shots of Valance and her curvy co-stars in their swimsuits. But with a plot even flimsier than the bikinis, there’s nothing here for the rest of us.

Full Review | Comment
09/23/06 04:05 AM
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]
Ratings Image

An ideal vehicle for Yuen, who is a dab hand at filming imaginative hand-to-hand combat sequences.

Full Review | Comment
09/23/06 04:05 AM
Derek Adams
Time Out
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

If you're a 15 year old boy, this stands every chance of becoming your favourite film in the entire world. At the very least it's the best movie adaptation of a video game so far.

Full Review | Comment
09/23/06 04:05 AM
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
Ratings Image

The über-villain is played, very tragically indeed, by poor Eric Roberts, brother of Julia, and he walks and talks as if his head has been used for kickboxing practice.

Full Review | Comment
09/23/06 04:05 AM
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

Yes, this is a genuinely terrible film. But it's also good fun.

Full Review | Comment
09/23/06 04:05 AM
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review | Comment
09/23/06 04:05 AM
Robert Hanks
Independent
Ratings Image

You know what to expect with Paul WS Anderson onboard as producer.

Full Review | Comment
09/05/06 03:15 AM
Jamie Russell
BBC
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

A metaphorical training bra for ogling boys - along with second childhood Dirty Old Aged men - DOA gives new meaning to females hooking up and hanging out, when it comes to airborne upper body intimate wear and its gravity defying plastic contents alike

Full Review | Comment
09/12/07 05:25 AM
Prairie Miller
WBAI Web Radio
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review | Comment
07/14/07 05:11 AM
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review | Comment
06/30/07 05:08 AM
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle
Ratings Image

It's all about as thrilling as watching the countryside whiz by in the car.

Full Review | Comment
06/25/07 07:25 AM
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International
Ratings Image

There is enough masturbation fodder here to keep many 11-year-old kids who have yet to find daddy's porn stash very happy.

Full Review | Comment
06/23/07 11:32 AM
Michael Ferraro
Film Threat
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review | Comment
06/23/07 04:29 AM
Dallas Morning News
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review | Comment
06/23/07 04:29 AM
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

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.

Full Review | Comment
06/20/07 02:11 PM
Gregory Kirschling
Entertainment Weekly
Ratings Image

DOA is a bad, cheesy and cheap production that nevertheless has enough goofy appeal to warrant watching with your buddies...

Full Review | Comment
06/20/07 11:40 AM
Stax
IGN Movies
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review | Comment
06/19/07 03:15 AM
Hollywood Reporter
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

DOA was the right title for this, acronym-bending or not.

Full Review | Comment
06/18/07 11:46 AM
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
Ratings Image

There was a time when movies like DOA: Dead or Alive lurked sheepishly at schoolboy height on video store shelves, spines straining to accommodate the charms of their actresses.

| Comment
06/18/07 11:42 AM
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
1 - 20 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Text View | 1 2 3
See More Topics...

Related Forums

My pointless opinion.
by: DeathByRabbit 10/15/07


another nail to the coffin.
by: eastern2western 9/21/07


Watched it last night and ummm...
by: bigsexy_90 9/17/07


This movie gives me a boner
by: cmdrmonkey 9/14/07


the Jaime Pressly Ugliness thread
by: w@velength 9/14/07
all

Pictures

all

Videos

Trailer
Watch Now >>
all

News

Frank Miller Faults Weinsteins for Sin City 2 Delay
posted by Scott Weinberg July 30, 2007
While sitting on a Comic Con panel, Frank Miller was asked about the hold-up on Sin City 2. (Numerous times, probably.)...


Next Video Game Movie: "Diablo"
posted by Scott Weinberg June 18, 2007
Now here's a game I know a little something about!


Box Office Guru Wrapup: "Fantastic Four" Clobbers Box Office Foes
posted by Gitesh Pandya June 17, 2007
Fox scored its first number one hit in five months with "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" which...


Critical Consensus: "Silver Surfer" Trips Fantastically, "Nancy Drew" Without a Clue, "DOA" Dead on Arrival
posted by Alex Vo June 14, 2007
Pop quiz, hotshot: which of the lesser Roberts do you prefer? Because this Friday, it's a match between Eric Roberts...

Around the Network

• DOA: Dead or Alive at Rotten Tomatoes
• DOA: Dead or Alive at IGN
• DOA: Dead or Alive at AskMen
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Celebs List| Newsletter
IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | ModCenter | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive

By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2008, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.