I'll get straight to the point and say, ITS BAD. Any fans of the games, prepare to be severely disappointed.
When I first heard that they were doing a DOA movie, I was sceptical. When I first saw the actors picked, I was more so. When I saw the film, I was amazed how bad they actually did.
I've never seen anything so painful. And I'm not talking about the strictly average fights. Somehow, they've managed to totally butcher almost every characters personality beyond belief. Every new character coming on screen was like a kick in the face.
Now i knew that it would be near impossible to get good actors who would look like and really feel like their characters. But they avoided that problem by not even trying! Instead they tried to get some lame cast of stars rather than people actually suited. We don't want a Christie thats played by a pop star!!! We don't need an Ayane played by someone who looks twice her age! Also, many of the costumes also look as if they were stolen of cos-players.
But that doesn't matter either, because they've decided to throw away any similarity to the characters anyway. Just a few nags...
For some reason they made Helena , as best as I can describe, some rollerskating bubbly pop girl. They seem to totally remove any sense of her french nationality, and the fact shes a opera singer. They also add in (and god knows why..) this geeky 'love interest'. Its not Helena at all!
Christie is said to be a thief, rather than an assassin. No longer the cold and detached killer shes meant to be. They also changed her unique fighting style, no She-Quan anywhere to be seen, she seems to prefer to fight with clenched fists. Again, just not the same character.
Ryu. Even as one of the 'least butchered' characters, any fans of ninja gaiden will be pained to see their hero being so... mundane. His capture is plain insulting. They also made the mistake of saying he's in the same clan as Kasumi.
kasumi's title as a 'ninja princess' is horribly skewed. For some reason the small simplistic ninja village is replaced by a city, with her living in a palace, and an army of soldiers (not even ninjas). Her soft personality is reversed to being cold and constantly looking quite moody. Also at the end of the film, her and the others go back to her clan and massacre the army. WTF!?!? Oh yeah, and Shinobi apparently means runaway ninja now... morons...
Ugh... I could complain about every character, but I've probably said enough on that. The plot also sucks and has no relation to the game. Even the comparatively easy bit, the fights, are poor. Average at most, then dropped by the fact they ignored the games again. They had several games full of fighting manoeuvres they could have used, so to make Ryu fans shout out "Yeah! He did Izuna drop". Just generally make them fight in their own styles. But did they use it? Nope. Sod that.
So there. The people responsible for this need to be slapped round the face with sponge full of glass dust and soaked in acid. I knew making a live action DOA movie would be a bad idea, but there is no excuse for something this poor. Unforgivable.
An insult to DOA and fans, and nothing more than a cheep second rate action movie for everyone else.
When I first heard that they were doing a DOA movie, I was sceptical. When I first saw the actors picked, I was more so. When I saw the film, I was amazed how bad they actually did.
I've never seen anything so painful. And I'm not talking about the strictly average fights. Somehow, they've managed to totally butcher almost every characters personality beyond belief. Every new character coming on screen was like a kick in the face.
Now i knew that it would be near impossible to get good actors who would look like and really feel like their characters. But they avoided that problem by not even trying! Instead they tried to get some lame cast of stars rather than people actually suited. We don't want a Christie thats played by a pop star!!! We don't need an Ayane played by someone who looks twice her age! Also, many of the costumes also look as if they were stolen of cos-players.
But that doesn't matter either, because they've decided to throw away any similarity to the characters anyway. Just a few nags...
For some reason they made Helena , as best as I can describe, some rollerskating bubbly pop girl. They seem to totally remove any sense of her french nationality, and the fact shes a opera singer. They also add in (and god knows why..) this geeky 'love interest'. Its not Helena at all!
Christie is said to be a thief, rather than an assassin. No longer the cold and detached killer shes meant to be. They also changed her unique fighting style, no She-Quan anywhere to be seen, she seems to prefer to fight with clenched fists. Again, just not the same character.
Ryu. Even as one of the 'least butchered' characters, any fans of ninja gaiden will be pained to see their hero being so... mundane. His capture is plain insulting. They also made the mistake of saying he's in the same clan as Kasumi.
kasumi's title as a 'ninja princess' is horribly skewed. For some reason the small simplistic ninja village is replaced by a city, with her living in a palace, and an army of soldiers (not even ninjas). Her soft personality is reversed to being cold and constantly looking quite moody. Also at the end of the film, her and the others go back to her clan and massacre the army. WTF!?!? Oh yeah, and Shinobi apparently means runaway ninja now... morons...
Ugh... I could complain about every character, but I've probably said enough on that. The plot also sucks and has no relation to the game. Even the comparatively easy bit, the fights, are poor. Average at most, then dropped by the fact they ignored the games again. They had several games full of fighting manoeuvres they could have used, so to make Ryu fans shout out "Yeah! He did Izuna drop". Just generally make them fight in their own styles. But did they use it? Nope. Sod that.
So there. The people responsible for this need to be slapped round the face with sponge full of glass dust and soaked in acid. I knew making a live action DOA movie would be a bad idea, but there is no excuse for something this poor. Unforgivable.
An insult to DOA and fans, and nothing more than a cheep second rate action movie for everyone else.