"DOA: Alive or the Dead": actors, roles, director and reviews

It's no secret that "DOA: Dead or Alive" (actors: Jamie Pressly, Holly Valance, Devon Aoki, Sarah Carter, Kane Kosugui, Natasha Malta) is the movie screening of the world-famous and incredibly popular fighting game for Play Station. It can be called a native sister of Mortal Kombat. But the DOA surpasses the "Mortal Battle" for the sumptuous heroines, the bright beach colors and traditional, more for anime, "evangelical" intrigue.

Double impression

While watching the film, it causes an ambiguous, ambivalent impression. Many leading film critics explain this phenomenon by participating in the production of a project of two extraordinary personalities - producer Paul Anderson and director Cory Yuen. Thanks to the efforts of the first "DOA: alive or dead" (DOA: dead or alive) has a couple of signs of the product of the modern film industry. Namely: in the fighting scenes, elements of aerial acrobatics were added (and the battles from unnatural physics are clearly prettier), but the visual series became a hundred times more aggressive (every second duel is diluted with a graphic insert from the original game). But the hardened censorship was put to the authors of the "DOA: Alive or the Dead" (the actors all pointed out this fact) a significant pig - because of the declared rating in the movie there is not a single drop of blood, not a single open terrible trauma or other mutilation, therefore Even the most violent fights look decent, toothless. And perceived by the beholder is not so emotional.

Plot

Many cinematographers called the completely illogical plot of the action movie "DOA: Alive or the Dead", the actors described the narrative story as follows. Kasumi (Devon Aoki) - a ninja girl - learns that her brother, who went to the elite fight tournament DOA, was killed by one of the participants from Russia. Not wishing to accept loss, she decides to go after her brother and get to the truth. So it appears in a group of contestants, officially invited to participate in the tournament. On the same day, along with the other participants, the heroine gets on an exotic island, where host Donovan (Eric Roberts) meets them , explaining the rules of the game. Participants receive a bracelet that allows them to track their movements and dose of "nanomachines" during a medical examination. The injected injection modifies the fighter: increases the strength, agility and quickness of the reaction of the participants. The bracelet shows the name of the participant with whom the hero is to fight. Actors of the movie "DOA: Alive or the Dead" call it all a prehistory, after which the long-fought massacre begins with a tempting and unexpected surprise in the finale.

Scenario

Writers J. Lawton, Adam and Seth Gross, based on the original computer game (the external data of the characters and their biographies), were concocted quite a tolerable scenario, involving virtually all the characters from the cult game. Actors and the roles of the movie "DOA: Alive or the Dead" are matched to each other ideally. All as one is the most similar in appearance, they have the same manners, habits. Thanks to costumers, the clothes of movie heroes also coincide with the wearing of computer characters. The installers of combat episodes took into account their techniques and learned with actors like that.

Inequality

Disappointment is only the fact that the characters were given a different amount of tape timing. In the movie "DOA: Alive or the Dead" (male actors did not hide their regret), the whole action revolves around three beauties - Kasumi (Devon Aoki), Tina (Jamie Pressly) and Christie (Holly Valance). The camera in the most favorable perspectives at every opportunity demonstrates their feminine charms, without going beyond the PG-13 rating. But as a result, such steep fighters as Leon (Silvio Shimach) or, for example, Zak (Brian J. White), were pushed to the background. And about Gen Fu (Feng Liu) immediately forgotten, after the first round. Therefore, the scheme of fights is predicted, inadequate and sometimes uninteresting.

Acting casting and director

Above was highlighted the main technogenic film intrigue "DOA: living or dead." The roles and actors of the film correspond exactly to the gameplay of the selection of characters. In the role of the leader of the sea pirates in the picture twice appears "ex-Liu Ken" - Robin Shu - resembling the fanatical homage of the "Mortal Battle". In addition, the director managed to make the fight quite decent for all the participants in the picture. The fact is that Corey Yuen is one of the main experts on the militants, as the main characters in which women perform. Therefore, Jamie Presley, Devon Aoki and debutante Holly Valance look great on the big screen, and not only externally. They, like the Valkyries, fight with all around. The male part of the characters does not lag behind the dangerous beauties. Among all stand out are the wrestler Kevin Nash and the Chinese Colin Chow (Ngai Singh), who worked with Yuan in the textbook "Bodyguard from Beijing".

Valkyrie DOA

Jamie Pressley - American model and actress, made her debut in cinema in 1997. Since that time has appeared in a variety of movies, without interrupting the career of the model. For the role of Joy Turner in the series "My Name is Earl" receives two nominations for the Emmy Award as best supporting actress. In some paintings Pressly played herself, and in the movie "Death to supermodels" acted as a producer. The girl can not stand the bed scenes, considering and kissing intimate. But easily removed in frank outfits, as in the picture "DOA: Alive or dead" (the actors missed blows because of her next outfit).

Devon Aoki is an actress and the smallest supermodel in the world, her height does not reach 170 cm. She has British, German and Japanese blood in her veins. In the movie the girl made her debut in the film "The Fast and the Furious", she is known to the viewer for the films "Sin City", "Spy", "War" and "The Chronicles of the Mutants".

Holly Valance is an Australian actress, pop singer and model of Anglo-Serbian descent. Her film career began with the Australian TV series "Neighbors", where in less than 16 years she played with Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue. Since 2004, despite some success in musical activity, Vales decides to focus on a career in film. The actress is known to the viewer on her work in some serials - "Beauties", "Escape", and in the movies - "Blonde in chocolate", "Hostage" and "DOA: Alive or dead".

Summary

Judging by the reviews, the high level of Mortal Kombat producer Corey Yuenu still could not be achieved. Although, apparently, he did not set himself such a goal. Fans of the game Dead or Alive from her kinekranizatsii, as critics say, will be delighted. An ordinary ordinary viewer will see a spectacular picture with an illogical plot line, but with beautiful heroines and zubodrobitelnye duels. Recommend at least to view this picture can be.