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Battle Royale

Batoru Rowaiaru (Battle Royale)

2000

Kinji Fukasaku

Aki Maeda, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Chiaki Kuriyama, Taro Yamamoto ...

6.5

35,844

Thriller. Action 42 delinquent students. 3 days. One deserted Island. Welcome to Battle Royale. A group of delinquent students from a Japanese high school have been forced by a legislation to compete in a new forum of reality television.The students are given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no bars hold (with a few minor rules) game to the death. This means that the students ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Maggie Lee The Hollywood Reporter	"The film that pioneered the concept of the teen death game still retains its raw visceral power and its provocative take on the clash between adulthood and youth."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[Fukasaku] has a punchy, efficient style (...) His expertly choreographed scenes of mayhem are at once comical and appalling, and his young cast embraces the melodramatic extremity of the story with impressive conviction."	POS
United Kingdom	The Guardian	"Some will find the explicit violence of this movie repulsive - or plain boring. But this is a film put together with remarkable confidence and flair. Its steely candour, and weird, passionate urgency make it compelling."	POS
United States	Sara Stewart New York Post	"Stylistically it’s a beauty (...) Fukasaku doesn’t seem to care too much about plot, but his 'Battle Royale' is a delightfully twisted romp: The odds, in this game, don’t seem in anybody’s favor."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"[It] isn't perfect (...) Yet the film has vitality and excitement, too, and speaks to the youth of the day with much the same galvanizing power as classics like If…. and 'A Clockwork Orange'."	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"[It] never lets you settle down, zipping between satire and splatter, offering moments that will make the most hardened viewer cringe (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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