Battle Royale

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

After searching for an authentic DVD of Battle Royale (eBay is flooded with bootlegs) I finally found a R0 special edition from the UK. Man, it was worth it. I heard so many good things about the film, so my expectations were pretty high, and I wasn't disappointed. The movie was very well directed, and the story was very cool. All the actors did a great job, and it was violent without being exploitive. There were quite a few onscreen deaths (at least 27), and the key characters were all good. I doubt a movie like this would ever get made in the U.S. The music is also very good.

 

If you don't know what Battle Royale is, check out the IMDB page here.

 

Has anyone else seen this flick?

[Guest red_file]

Saw it and enjoyed it, but I kept getting the feeling that I was missing nuances because of my lack of knowledge about Japanese culture and schools.

[Guest ArkhamGlobe]

I've seen it and I loved it. Great action scenes contrasted with razor sharp satire always makes me happy.

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

I saw it last weekend. Its pretty good but fairly mindless. It seemed a forced idea.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

Well, duh. Obviously it seemed like a forced idea, since the entire point of the movie was forcing the characters into the situation.

[Guest the 1inch punch]

Lets go through my theroy on Battle Royale shall we

 

Film with Beat Takeshi= Good

Battle Royale has Beat Takeshi

 

Ergo

 

 

 

 

Battle Royale =Good

[Guest J*ingus]

Usually true, but Takeshi was in Johnny Mnemonic after all.

[Guest Incandenza]

Film with Beat Takeshi= Good

 

Battle Royale has Beat Takeshi

 

There was no excusing Kikujiro.