Hiroyoshi Komuro, Josie Ho, Maria Chen, Richard Chen, Riki Takeuchi ...( see more  see more... ) , Sho Aikawa , Terence Yin

Hoping to create an evil society of his own, Woo (Richard Cheung) drugs the entire population of his city with Prozac-infused hormone pills and ships the pregnant women and children off to prison. Woo...( read more  read more... )'s biggest follower is Honda (Riki Takeuchi), who fends off a growing underground resistance led by Fon (Terence Yin), his vicious girlfriend Jyun (Josie Ho) and a spunky robot named Ryo (Sho Aikawa), who becomes Honda's greatest challenger.

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Unrated, 89 min.

Directed by: Takashi Miike

Release Date: November 29, 2002

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DVD Release Date: November 25, 2003

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  • October 7, 2008
    OK, this doesn't compare to the explosive tempo of the first part's opening sequence; nor to its visual shock value; nor, for that matter, to the melancholic suspense of the second installment. No, it's surprisingly and refreshingly different (apart, of course, from the two main ...( read more)actors). The tongue-in-cheek futuristic scenario drives the characters towards each other across genres and languages with an almost gravitational force. The moment of impact-conclusion is your choice of: a)Shakespearean metaphor of life and humanity in a cartoon costume; b)sublimation of violence into homo-erotics; c)humorous detonation of an impossible buildup. Everything up to then is even less unequivocal.

    Highly recommended to indiscriminate movie buffs who don't mind following foie gras with a hot dog; caution to those with more refined palates.
  • July 7, 2008
    A lot better from what i was expecting, considering that must people don't give a lot of credit to this one. It's a nice spoof of sci/fi concepts. A fit ending to a very unique trilogy.
  • May 20, 2008
    While not as fast-moving as earlier Miike thrillers like Shinjuku Triad Society, Dead or Alive: Final does pick up the pace from its two predecessors, and replaces the brutal violence of the first with some exciting martial arts/gunplay.

    There's a confusing climatic attempt to...( read more) draw all three movies together, plus some pretty cool mecha-violence complete with a jaundiced skyline. Overall, a nice finish to an insane trilogy.
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  • December 21, 2007
    Great conclusion to an amazing trilogy. A sci-fi take on the DOA theme, with the roles from the original reversed, but the characters morals somewhat stay the same. Just thinking about this film makes me want to watch it again.
  • September 15, 2009
    Disappointing. The film unfolds in post-apocalyptic Yokohama, 2364. And the future looks just like, well, present day!!! The place is under a totalitarian control over natality and resources. The plot is cool, but not the settings, neither the style, nor the effects or acting. De...( read more)finitely not Miike's style.

    Nice Tetsuo (1989) reference in the ending...

    47/100
  • July 23, 2009
    I liked the first one, this third movie did not really reach the same quality and pace of the first.
  • July 3, 2009
    las peliculas de acción no tienen que ser una cagada plagadas de innecesarios efectos especiales. miike lo demuestra y nos presenta la conclusión de una de mas mejores sagas de estos tiempos enfermos .
  • June 17, 2009
    hopefully it'll better than the first one
  • February 8, 2009
    Mas que secuela yo la veo como el final de una historia
  • June 30, 2008
    Two actors play rival gangsters in three films, the final of which is a sci-fi film, that nods strangely to William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, and anime all at once. The robots are actually called "replicants", a reference to Dicks Blade Runner(several visual allusions to the ...( read more)film can be found as well) and the bad guy is a psychotic gay mayor obsessed with limiting procreation through use of a compulsory drug for "heterosexual love is fleeting, and homosexual love is eternal"....martial arts fights ensue, a first for the dead or alive films. The hilarious climax involves the two leads morphing into a winged robot with a gigantic phallus for a head, who personifies "destruction", which has been the path of both characters thus far, their individual minds and later literal heads functioning as something like testicles. The film ends with the mayor f*&%ing his free jazz playing boy lackey as the robot apparently tears down a wall around them, the last words of the mayor "Oh f*&%", followed by a quick fade to black. Part of me felt cheated, part of me confused, but mostly I was just laughing. A lot of the film is quite boring though, the best scenes bookend the film while the rest is far too slow. Takashi Miike has always mined the sexual motifs beneath male violence in action films, and this film with the exception of "Gozu", reinforces this theme more than any other. Sex and violence are two pretty basic themes, but like Cronerberg (who the jazz interludes may be a homage to ala Naked Lunch)Miike is able to show where the two connect, to hilarious an oddly cohesive effect.

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