DOA: Dead or Alive
Fighting game movies are some of the most hit-or-miss when it comes to adaptations. You have an easy setup for a lot of action, usually by staging a tournament that attracts a bunch of larger-than-life personalities, but stringing it together with a proper plot is the biggest obstacle for these movies. DOA: Dead or Alive is a prime example of what essentially amounts to actors cosplaying different fighters, beating each other up, and a loose plot barely holding it all together. The Dead or Alive cast gives performances that would barely pass for the worst amateur film you’ve seen, and when the source material was giving them nothing to work with, who can really blame them? — Kenneth Shepard
