All joking aside, DOA: Dead or Alive is a fun little flick, one that you'll probably kick yourself repeatedly for enjoying. Just try to stuff your preconceived notions in a cookie jar before sitting down with it and all should be right with the world. Seriously! As an action picture, it's occasionally fierce, sporadically funny, and thoroughly entertaining. As long as you can stomach a few dodgy scenes that require our juicy collection of eye candy — both male and female — to actually hold conversations with one another, I think you'll be surprised by how much you like it.
And if your significant other starts running his or her mouth about the film's reliance on scantily-clad women fighting in the nude, in the rain, and with hardly anything covering their wobbly bits, just tell them that you're here for the kung fu, thank you very much. After all, we're here for the martial arts madness, right?
Right?
Article comments
1 - Ken Edwards
Nice job on the review. I am quite surprised it actually made it to theaters.
2 - T. Rigney
Thanks for the kind words. I'm very surprised this made it to theaters, as well, especially considering I've had the Region 3 DVD since late last year.