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Reviews of Battle Royale
Life is a game!
Posted : 11 months, 3 weeks ago on 19 November 2008 08:19
(A review of Battle Royale)''Life is a game. So fight for survival and see if you're worth it.''
In future Japan, the government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Tatsuya Fujiwara: Shuya Nanahara - Boys #15
Aki Maeda: Noriko Nakagawa - Girls #15
Ah Battle Royale reminds me of my days at school....
Only joking, kind of! Royale tackles brain washing and youth in one foul swopp and i can see why it is compaered in certain ideas to Clockwork Orange. Even the music nods at Stanley Kubrick in places. Reminding me of Final Fantasy to music wise and that kid in the smart suit.
The killing is pretty good in this, meant to be disturbing but it caused me to laugh at times in it's approaches.
Could you kill your best friend? Does Battle Royale answer this. I know what i got. You can do anything with the right motivations.
Nice to see Chiaki Kuriyama from Kill Bill and after seeing this i can see why she got the part in that hack and slash.
Takeshi Kitano was deranged, loved his teaching.
The countdown aspect of the student dying, pure perfection. The ultimate game and something maybe we need in our education systems for all the chavs and townies and disrespecting youths in Society.
Battle Royale is a masterpiece that shows the limits and extremes of the human mind.
A masterpiece visually and musically.
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A Brilliant Story.
Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago on 19 April 2008 05:48
(A review of Battle Royale)I recommend this film to everyone who can handle subtitles and mild gore really, its a brilliant idea which im sure has been done before but there is so much to like about this particular story that it stands out as a classic straight away.
The Japanese government come up with the novel idea of combating unemployment and the increasing issue of youth crime, by sending the worse offending classes to a remote island where they are forced into collars capable of killing them and told they have 3 days to murder each other until 1 is left standing otherwise after 3 days they all die. Each youth is given a back pack of supplies, a map, and 1 secret weapon to aid them in their battle, ranging from machine guns, cross bows, right down to a fan and a bin lid. They are forced into moving constantly by fluctuating death zones which they avoid using their map. Some of them chose to work together, others go it alone. Obviously eventually the killing starts and everyone is forced to come up with a solution.
Most of this movie you will find yourself fantasizing about what YOU would do in this scenario, would you (being the first one out) hide behind the door and just kill everyone that came out after you? Would you jump to your death, or would you go out with a bang taking down as many others with you as possible?
It sounds like something you wouldn't like to consider, but it does make you feel like you have learned something new about yourself after watching it. The story isn't just one big kill fest there is a plot to it that is good enough to warrant a re-watch etc. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it and its always good to shove on if someone you know hasn't seen it and your stuck for something else to do etc. There are very surreal moments throughout the story, as if being shoved on an island to kill your class mates wasn't surreal enough, and that just adds to the fun of the film really. My only fear about this great story is that it will be remade in the West. This would be the worst possible thing to happen and would prove that Hollywood is just a massive pile of wank.
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Battle Royale review
Posted : 2 years ago on 3 November 2007 07:27
(A review of Battle Royale)A film that stands out from the rest of the Tartan Asia Extreme collection as one that is immensely thought provoking and profound. Although the plot is something that is not regarded as anything ground-breaking, the film manages to avoid tired old cliches that might have arisen in your own imagination if you were thrust into the same position as these unfortunate school children.
Essentially, an unruly class is shipped off to a desert island (under a new law in Japanese justice) where they then have to fight to the death. The ultimate survivor is promised salvation and an almost anti-hero like status amongst the Japanese public, though as the film progeresses you see that this isn't the case. With each child assigned a random weapon (ranging from guns and grenades to saucepan lids and fans) you see how previous friends turn against one another, while others manage to stick together before meeting grave endings. Throughout the whole film you can only begin to imagine what you'd do in the same situation, and that's what makes it such an interesting film.
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