Prismark10 Battle Royale is Japanese horror satire set in a Dystopian Japan that has entered economic decline, where unruly school kids are taught a survivalist lesson. Beat Kitano plays a school teacher stabbed by a pupil who gets revenge on the school kids he once taught.Just before they are about to leave school the adolescents think they are going on a outing, they end up in a small island. They are told that due to the Millennium Educational Reform Act. society now expects them to take part in a survival competition where they will kill each other and they have to do it in three days. The kids have a neck brace which tracks their movements. If they attempt to take it off it will explode, if more than one person is standing by the end of the third day it will explode. The winner gets to leave the island.They are randomly given supplies and weapons and told to set off on the island. They have to avoid certain zones at certain times or they will explode.Some of the kids immediately go on a killing spree, others commit suicide, some join together to figure out a way to escape. A few of the clever kids try to beat the system.The film does not depict many of the kids as evil, they seem to be just normal teenagers. It does have some graphic ways of getting rid off them and some of it is a bit silly.Battle Royale inspired films such as The Hunger Games. It combines the horror of teenagers slaughtering each other, the state sanctioning such killings and a few trying to beat the system. It is an eerie, disturbing film yet curiously enjoyable. I rather cheered when one of them managed to hack the system and had a plan to teach the adults a lesson.

kos_tsan I think this movie is overrated at 7.7/10.Despite the fact that the original idea has no total logic (send kids to kill each other to evaluate life and ethics etc??), all the remaining issues have no sense as well.1) Why their school principal (their sensei) has so important role and even the military guys obey him? He is just a school principal after all. 2) Why on earth, the military left without checking for the last 2 bodies, in order to determine the winner. They got scare of the principal?? It makes no sense.I could count down for ever but lets stop here. The only good about this film is its main purpose, throw a bunch of people in an island and tell them to kill each other until is only one survivor. They could make a better film much easier.P.S. The sequel (BR2) is even worse

aziz_essa This movie is absolutely overrated. It's kind of comedy movie I would say. In the most of the violence scenes I have had to laugh a lot. Some of people here would say, if you don't understand Japanese culture you will not understand this movie... this is my second Japanese movie I have ever watched. This movie if I could call it a movie is absolutely crap and timewasting. Very bad acting. it doesn't deserve more than 3 stars.. and 3 stars only for the idea of this film.

Rahyar Taghipoor So I finally watched BR after all this time and I feel that the hipsters are really at it with this one. This movie hardly is a masterpiece 10 out of 10 title, it is above average at best. The best thing with BR is not its over the top cheesy action scenes but the very story it portrays about the younger generation lost and an aging nation that as I am writing this review is having a higher mortality rates than birth rates. Japan is a polite country, with a culture based on politeness and this culture is constantly at clash with the western values and the influence it has on its youth. This has led to a gap that is separating the youth of the past two decades from the older people of the nation, to add to this Japan has also turned into the land of virgins with many young people skipping the whole procreation act and the relationship etc altogether. So you can imagine that the actual story the movie is telling you is not about the disrespectful teens towards their elders but this divide in place that is sending the Japanese society towards some really dangerous spirals. No this movie is not about how teenagers would act if they got their hands on guns as some reviews claim. This isn't either some knock on the kind of entertainment the Japanese people enjoy (comics, games, anime, baseball etc) as yet some other reviews claim. This is pointing the finger at both sides. This is why this movie is important in some sense. However as mentioned before this is not a masterpiece and there are some reasons behind it. For example the acting is pretty shoddy and just weird. The story seems to actually skip the realities of such a situation. I was honestly very surprised that rape was barely a part of story. The fact that there are that many teenagers without any boundaries gives any of these teens with their crazy hormones the complete power and reason to do commit rape. While I don't say all of them would commit such a heinous act but there would be an inevitable incident. Something that I enjoyed was all the weird moments when a waltz was played throughout the movie. It was just completely weird and yet good enough to make me laugh. The greatest achievement of telling the story of youngsters growing up in a harsh Asian society and the struggle of aging nation is what saves this movie gracefully. Not a masterpiece but indeed worth a watch.