D.O.A. - 2006

They made a movie with the characters of the famous videogame. There's more or less everyone, but obviously all the attention is focused on the girls, no surprise there. There's a tournament, D.O.A., a very famous one only invited fighters can take part. 

We find: Tina Armstrong (Jamie Pressly) and her father Bass (Kevin Nash). They are wrestlers, but she wants to prove to the world that she's the real thing, a real fighter. Kasumi (Devon Aoki) wants to find out what happened to her unbeatable brother, gone missing since the last tournament. Ayane (Natassia Malthe) doesn't take part, she goes only to find Kasumi and bring her back/kill her, not sure about this detail, probably to kill her, yeah.

Christie (Holly Valance) is a thief I really know nothing about because she was not in the Doa2 I played years ago. Helena is completely different from what I remembered. She's the daughter of the tournament founder, now dead and with business partner Donovan (Eric Roberts) in his place. Hayabusa (Kane Kosugi) was a big friend of Kasumi's brother, so he helps her. Max (Matthew Marsden) is Christie's lover, and they're both here planning to steal all the money.

Zach (Brian White) is as annoying and as loud as in the game. Hayate-Collin Chou, Bayman-Derek Boyer, Leon-Silvio Simac, Gen Fu-Fang Liu, and Lei Fang-Ying Wang are all present, but they mean nothing, they are pretty much there just to be beaten and to make number.

All the focus is on Christie, Tina, Kasumi and Helena. 

At the end we find out Donovan's evil plan. He had Kasumi's brother prisoner, for the final demonstration: he has recorded on a computer all the best fighters' moves, and now he can download them into his brain like in Matrix, only here it is not permanent. Take away the magical glasses and take away the powers!

The girls become allies against him and the good ones win. Yeah. End.

A silly toy, no doubt about that. Nothing more, it was obvious from the start, but in some strange way not all that bad. The girls went ok after all, and Kasumi was exactly how she was supposed to be. Sad the other fighters counted for so little though.

A silly but enjoyable silliness.