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Bloody hell!! What an absolutely amazing film that turned out to be. Battle Royale was recommended by a friend from my college class and I am ever so glad he recommended it because it turned out to be a foreign masterpiece for me. It is an absolutely amazing intense action packed thrill ride that is really graphic and with a lot of hard hitting deaths. This film was deeply enjoyable for me because, yes, it is rather silly that people play that sort of game but it was enjoyable because of the fact that those people within it are sick enough to do that sort of thing. It was tense because all of the kids had different weapons and I wanted to know who was going to be killed, where on the island, when they were going to be killed and how they were going to die. I personally think that Battle Royale is one of the best films that is just for pure entertainment that you could just sit down and watch on a Saturday night. Despite of how silly the plot of this film is, I have to say that it is just too cool to not like.
The acting was quite lame but to be perfectly honest I don't really care about that because films that are just entertaining that has lame acting doesn't bother me. I find it to be an absolutely amazing accomplishment from the whole cast despite of their lame acting. Battle Royale is a film that has almost every character with almost the same kind of personality with the crushes they have and also want either to kill each other to win game or to work together and try and escape without getting killed. It is like that sort of story that you would dream about and would think about in your head in a very deep, affectionate way regarding friendship, violence and hard and awkward situations.
The directing was really good from a director that I don't really know of because he is a foreign director and is now deceased. Kinji Fukasaku did a pretty good job at making an awesome piece of entertainment that needed to be made and a film that should have been made around 10 years ago. The way this film is written is awesome but lame if you get what I mean because it is an entertaining script but not a top notch script that is worthy of an Oscar nomination which is after all some of the things that entertaining films are about.
This is definitely my favourite Japanese film without a doubt and always will be hopefully. It is one of my top 10 films that are just for pure entertainment and one of the best action films of all time too. I find it to be a foreign language masterpiece that could be watched on a regular basis. It blew me away totally even with the blood. It was really realistic blood with just pure brilliance. My favourite foreign language film is still Pan's Labyrinth but it is one of my favourite foreign films though. It is a story full of suspense, drama, black comedy, violence and friendship and it didn't disappoint in any way whatsoever.
9/10
