DOA: Dead or Alive

it's weird that this got buried when the fast & furious franchise blew up the way it did. it's basically a mortal kombat movie but set to the tone of tokyo drift. except for once the only characters who really matter are all female, and not even in an overly fetishising way like the doa video games. so y'know, could've been much worse. plus you've got corey yuen directing some fun as heck action scenes, as he does. there's no way you put this flip-phone era time capsule on without checking your expectations and brain at the door, and for being so unabashedly dumb i kinda loved it. and you read more