Reviews of Battle Royale 2001
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Having just finished the novel of Battle Royale, I can't help but to be disappointed with the film adaptation. While yes, I understand that everything from the book couldn't be included just because that would make the film at least 4+ hours long. The condensed version presented here is just a mess to me, with some aspects of the book remaining intact (the excellent lighthouse sequence) while others are distorted or just off (what the hell was going on with Sakamochi and Noriko?).
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I really don't know what this film is getting at. It's likeable enough but there are a lot of unspoken character motivations that bypass me completely.
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When I first watched the infamous Battle Royale one year ago, I didn't love it. I enjoyed it, but I was admittedly so caught up in the Hunger Games craze that I didn't care about anything that didn't include Katniss and Peeta (I'm ashamed). I've rewatched the movie, and I loved it this time around. It's stylish and well-written (though I will probably never hear the original dialogue, since I don't speak Japanese) and obviously far superior to The Hunger…
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Grandisima decepcion. Un sinsentido de argumento. No hay nada en esta pelicula que te enganche y te mantenga pegado a la pantalla.
Un juego macabro (excusa para dar rienda suelta a la violencia) con alumnos adolescentes de un colegio japones dejados a su suerte en una isla desierta de la cual saldra solamente uno despues de que sea el unico superviviente matandose entre ellos...
A priori, la idea no pinta mal, pero deja mucho que desear cuando te das cuenta…
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A solidly entertaining if not ultimately empty movie experience for me. The director wastes no time with back story or political/historical context - he just gets straight into the killing of Japanese teenagers. Its as if The Hunger Games had a smaller budget and were directed by a young Tarantino. I discovered on Imdb that this is his favorite movie since 1992 and on Filmspotting After Hours No. 4, that Lucy Liu's character in Kill Bill was based directly on…
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Part of Cinebro June Challenge : #15
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Credits Review: The movie was not quite as non-sensical and violent as I was expecting to see, but in a good way I think. It put people that had extremely dark things happen to them in an extremely dark setting together with the intention of murdering each other; this phrase can also be translated into "brilliance". Also, can people stop fucking comparing it to The Hunger Games please? Just let me enjoy Battle Royale.
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it's been at least six years since I last watched this film, and its not as awesome and extreme as I once thought, but it's still good.
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I don't know if I can love this film any more. I hate being "that guy" but it is everything I wished the Hunger Games would be.
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