Dead Or Alive 2006

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: Corey Yuen and his writers have adapted their dubiously titled DOA: Dead or Alive from the video game series of the same name -- apparently convinced that the scraps of backstory originally scribbled by the gamers were plenty. Read more

Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: 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. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: While the teen target audience may be convinced that this is exciting, the rest of us will leave the theater exhausted and with brain cells thoroughly fried. Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: Praise be to director Corey Yuen for delivering one of the year's purest entertainments -- the best butt-kicking PG-13 bikini jiggle fest since the first Charlie's Angels flick. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: DOA: Dead or Alive aspires to be nothing more than a sanctuary from thinking. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Charlie's Angels, Survivor, American Gladiators and Girls Gone Wild are just some of the bad influences on Hong Kong action director Corey Yuen's laughably silly adaptation of the video game DOA: Dead or Alive. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: DOA was the right title for this, acronym-bending or not. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: An ideal vehicle for Yuen, who is a dab hand at filming imaginative hand-to-hand combat sequences. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Pic is so insubstantial that it practically evaporates on screen. Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, Village Voice: The film's pretty much nonstop fighting, mostly in very little clothing, with the flair you expect from a master choreographer like Yuen. It's awesome. Read more