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Mortal Kombat
Why this pick
A colorful video-game tournament movie with island arenas, distinct combat specialists, mystical rivalries, and the same unapologetically pulpy, game-like momentum.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2006 1h 27m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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TEKKEN
Why this pick
Another game adaptation built around a corporate-controlled fighting event, flashy one-on-one combat, and competitors with personal stakes beyond the prize.
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The Tournament
Why this pick
Its enclosed, heavily surveilled contest and roster of deadly specialists echo DOA’s engineered competition, though with a grittier and more violent tone.
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Man of Tai Chi
Why this pick
Delivers cleanly staged martial-arts bouts and a sinister organizer using a combat tournament to manipulate fighters, with a sleek modern-action feel.
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Street Fighter
Why this pick
A bright, knowingly cartoonish game-world adaptation centered on exaggerated fighters, rival factions, and energetic ensemble action rather than realism.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A group of martial arts and combat masters are invited to a fighting contest, "Dead or Alive", on an isolated island within an advanced complex, with the ultimate prize of $10 million. Among the competitors are Kasumi, a Ninja ninja-princess looking for her brother Hayate (who was competing in the last tournament), Tina, a professional wrestler setting out to prove she has more potential (complicated by her father Bass being one of the contenders), Christie, a master thief and assassin, her treacherous partner Maximillian ‘Max’ Marsh, and Hayabusa, a friend of Kasumi and Hayate who follows Kasumi to keep her safe, using the invitation to DOA for this. A final competitor is Helena Douglas, daughter of the tournament’s late founder. When they arrive, they are monitored by the island’s supervisor, Dr. Victor Donovan, who, aided by egghead Weatherby, is gathering data (using injected nano-sensors) from the fights for some mysterious project. To add to the situation, an assassin from Kasumi's colony, named Ayane, has followed Kasumi to kill her and wipe away the disgrace the princess has caused to the clan.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Devon Aoki
Kasumi
Jaime Pressly
Tina Armstrong
Holly Valance
Christie Allen
Sarah Carter
Helena Douglas
Natassia Malthe
Ayane
Kane Kosugi
Ryu Hayabusa
Brian J. White
Zack
Kevin Scott Nash
Bass Armstrong