Review of Battle Royale (2000) by Mccorpse — 23 Feb 2013
Its a pretty hard concept to get over. A class of grade 9 students, whats that? 15 years old are all forced to fight to the death. If you are able to get passed that then you'll be treated to a very violent and entertaining film.
You get to watch as the ticker counts down 41 students as the die one by one. There are a bunch of flash backs and a little bit of a introduction that gives us a bit of an idea who these kids are and what their personalities are before we have to watch them alll die.
Its quite brutal and relentless in its violence(especially the scene where everything is being explained to the class and some of the students are used as demonstrations to how things work) but also has a very small amount of cheesyness to it.
Some of the people get shot a bunch of times and then hop back to their feet to fight some more. This could be overlooked if it happened once but it happened a few times and became laughable after a while.
Still though the brutality overshadows the comedy and its a very dark yet entertaining movie.
This review of Battle Royale (2000) was written by Mccorpse on 23 Feb 2013.
Battle Royale has generally received very positive reviews.
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