DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE: Revisiting A Corey Yuen Action Adventure That Is Better Than You Remember
If there’s one thing you can count on in the world of video games it’s that if something is successful, there will be copies. With the massive success of Street Fighter II, it was no surprise the market was flooded with fighting games, each with their own unique additions to help differentiate them from their competitors. For Mortal Kombat it was the gore and fatalities, Virtua Fighter took fighting games into 3D, and for DOA: Dead Or Alive, it was a blisteringly fast fighting engine and boobs. So many boobs. Movies are not exempt from this follow-the-leader mindset. In the years since the Paul W.S. Anderson succeeded the guilty pleasure early 90s camp that was Steven E. de Souza’s Street Fighter with New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat in 1995, we’ve had several more films based on fighting games; John Leonetti delivered a Mortal Kombat sequel a few years later, while […]
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