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D.O.A.:
DEAD OR ALIVE-2006-This martial arts fantasy comedy drama is based on
a popular video game. It's about a bunch of dorks who are invited to
a martial arts tournament (D.O.A.). The three main characters are
female: a pro-wrestler (Jamie Pressly), an assassin (Holly Valance)
and a princess (Devon Aoki) who's looking for her brother (Collin
Chou), said to have been killed in the last D.O.A. The guy who runs
the thing is played by Eric Roberts. There's a lot of swordplay and
fights using CGI and “Jet Li wires”. (The director Corey Yuen made several
movies with Li) Kane Kosugi plays a friend of the princess and
pro-wrestler Kevin Nash is in it. There's a lot of smart ass jokes
and dialogue and most of the men getting beat up by the women. Robin
Shou from the MORTAL KOMBAT movies appears briefly as a pirate.
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ALMIGHTY THOR-2011 -In this stupid made for TV fantasy ("presented" by the SyFy channel) Richard Grieco is a pasty faced Loki and pro wrestler Kevin Nash is Odin! They have a big fight because "the prince of mischief" wants "the hammer of invincibility" that Odin has. During their battle Odin is tricked into killing his eldest son. Then Loki kills Odin but not before the king of the gods sends the hammer to another dimension. It's left to the youngest son named Thor (Cody Deal who had un-credited roles in GET HIM TO THE GREEK and THE HANGOVER before this. From his acting I can see why!)) to retrieve the hammer and defeat the evil Loki who is assisted by several giant CGI like canines. The characters speak mostly modern English ("Just gimmie the hammer, Odin"). Thor meets up with Jarnsaxa (Patricia Velasquez) and they travel to Earth. He and Loki engage in several fights.
It was directed by Christopher Ray, the son of director Fred Olen Ray. You've been warned!
Thanks to Tony for giving me this (it's ok, we're still friends..).
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