Battle Royale
Drama • R • 2000 • 1 hr 53 min
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A slickly made and entertaining movie that is brutal and heartbreaking as well. The melodrama works so well with the crazy premise.
Lean and mean forerunner to Hunger Games. Not much character development, but just enough to differentiate between the kids.
Cool premise for callous entertainment hence The Hunger Games and Fortnite. Well executed too.
If it invents a sub-genre, it’s a legendary movie
Instant classic, the first of a gritty genre that has yet to be countered in both emotion and gore. It's an instant hit baby!
The violence of this series is so great and attractive that it even made Tarantino jealous Hunger Games and Squid Game are worthless copies
A Japanese classic, think The Hunger Games but better and more violent.
The original Hunger Games. The acting is nothing to write home about but it’s an interesting concept with some crazy action
One of my favorite Foreign films, dark, brutal, and absolutely action packed. A disturbing concept but a highly entertaining film.
A brilliant film, only outshone by its source material. If you like the film, read the book; you'll be amazed.
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It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
