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Fri 09 Sep 2006Video nastyREVIEWED - DOA: DEAD OR ALIVETHIS unhappy adaptation of a popular video game from the director of the perfectly acceptable Transporter manages somehow to fail even at its own debased level. When you hear that its level is down beneath the pavement where human waste and infected vermin fight for space, you may begin to understand quite what a dismal prospect DOA presents.Charlie's Angels without that series's subtle nuances, this gruesome - though insufficiently grisly - thriller transports three violent babes to a remote island where, invoking the spirit of Enter the Dragon, they are invited to compete in a martial arts contest.