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Best movie of this year hands down!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

It's like the move wanted to say "America was bombed, but that's ok, cause they're bad anyways, terrorists aren't really bad they're just misunderstood", and with that line of logic everything those terrorists fight for is worth while too. We had legitimate reasons for bombing all the countries listed, several times, in this crap movie. With any luck this stupid overacted movie will fade into obscurity never to be seen again.

Though it does not fully follow the formula of the first, this film sets to outdo the first film's level of ferocity and violence, and does so beautifully. With extreme levels of gore and violence, it surpasses the first with a political twist. Set 3 years after the first film, where the Battle Royale game defunct, and teens forming a terrorist rebel army. A class of teens are handed guns and forced to complete one task, kill the terrorist leader.Along with the expect extreme amounts of gore, the film audaciously tackles terrorism in 2003, a time when the world had many fresh wounds caused by terrorist acts. Not only is there a scene of two identical towers falling after an explosion only 2 years after 9/11, it also sets out to contemplate what drives terrorists to kill scores of innocent people, humanizing them. Not to mention the terrorist children are all either dressed like al-Qaeda terrorists and Marxist revolutionaries. Not subtle at all and a very brave message to put out for the time this was released.The acting is so over-done to the point of silliness, but thats not why you came here. You came here for the legendary amount of gore, and this film will not disappoint. With nearly 100 people killed on screen, this film has enough gore to satisfy even the thirstiest veteran gore film enthusiast. Though some of the digitally rendered blood can sometimes be a bit unrealistic and take you out of it for a moment, but enough real blood is used to keep it classy.While you won't get the same movie you saw in Battle Royale 1, you will certainly appreciate the spin taken, as well as the dramatic increase in action and gore.

The parallels with Hunger Games are impossible to ignore. The first Battle Royale was superior to the "original" Hunger Games. Unfortunately in the sequels, whilst Hunger Games CF was not a great movie, BR2 is a pretty bad movie.The plot is not so much different as more like an alternative story that was rejected for the first movie as being just too stupid, then dusted off and, unedited, put to film so as to quickly cash in on the success of BR. My "Cheesey Overacting" gauge, which hangs next to the screen, broke about 30mins in & never recovered.I know that much Japanese cinema (and TV) is inexplicable to a non- Japanese audience but this film really crosses the line. So much is impossible to explain at all. Why use students if you really want the job done? Why does an apparently unsuccessful teacher of difficult students suddenly have free run and authority in a military HQ? Could the Rugby thing at the end have been any stupider? Could the constant pauses in the carnage for the 'characters' to have meaningful minutes be any more ridiculous? {no & no} Why do we never see an army guy who runs anything? Why do allegedly "tough" students constantly make such melodramatic and obviously poor decisions? And so on.In BR1 we cared a little about the characters, in BR2 we don't as the action rushes past in a blur of gunfire & stupidity. It would have been so easy to just do a minor rework of the original and release another successful BR film, as the HG people did. Instead the makers, again inexplicably, fell on their swords and have pretty much killed the franchise. 4/10 is generous. It's atrocious drivel with pretty girls who largely get blown up.

It's on my mind the most brilliant representative of films, in which awesome first part and the second did not have to do it at all than make such a mess. Discouragement from the first to the last seconds. I am very sorry for my time spent Started watching eagerly second part immediately after watching the first, it is really a blow to all counts. From the very beginning the film is very tedious, but still there is hope that the story will begin to develop yet somehow. By the middle there is a great desire to turn off this stuff and never to forget about it. Sorry for the spelling, but you need to warn people about what it is not worthy to steal their precious time (which is priceless)