Battle Royale (2000)

I can't say that the movie is cool, but there is something in it. It's worth a look

"Battle Royale" / Batoru rowaiaru (2000 and 2003).

He became the progenitor of such films as:

“Kaiji: Live or Lose" / Kaiji: Jinsei gyakuten gêmu 2009 (Japan)

Planet of the Beasts / Dong wu shi jie, 2018 (China)

Squid Game / Ojingeo geim (Squid Game) 2021 (Korea).


not everything is carbon copy, of course, but the essence... genre... plot.
in general, everything new is a long-forgotten old thing... ^-^"

It's not a bad movie. I watched it back when it was released, but I still remember the names of the main characters) Nanahara Shuya, Kawada Shogo, Nakawara Nareko, teacher Kitano)
I remember how worried I was about the main ones.
In general, when friends and classmates become enemies and want to kill you in order to survive yourself, it's powerful. In such a situation, the appearance of friendship immediately slips and a bloody massacre begins...
As Kitano said
, Life is a game, a cruel game, and you have to prove that you deserve to take a place in the sun."
The movie is cool, I advise everyone)

The first half of the film is the most interesting.

well, it's quite normal for those years
, well, it turns out that the same Hunger Games took this film as a reference, well,
I watched the rest and, of course, in my head was the film The Terrible Will of the Gods
, you look at these Japs, and they are already over forty :DD

Somehow, the film didn't impress at all, everyone brought it like that.
And the idea of collars is not new, it was already in the movie Deadly Bonds with Rutger Hauer!!!

As an idea, it's great.
But the acting - 🤮
I don't really watch Japanese movies/TV series, but it's really bad here. I'll throw everything on the fact that it's a very old movie, and then they didn't know how to play)

Xs, maybe it was cool a quarter of a century ago, but now 🤷♀️
I'm not impressed, M.B. because we've watched both The Hunger Games and two seasons of the Squid Game.;

A strange and stupid idea, if they wanted the best to stay, couldn't they have come up with something better than a massacre? So who's going to stay? It is more likely that a person with a broken psyche will remain, or initially psychopaths without morals who have only one goal to survive, and what is the benefit for society in the end? It was easier to make something like a test and leave the best ones. It's funny, at first I thought marginal guys would commit the first murders, but in the end, the first murder was committed by puffy)) and the guy with the bandana, I thought he was going to be a thug, but in the end he helped the heroes in the beginning. In general, the film doesn't look good right now.

"Two scared girls... This is madness! Who are they? And it's so easy to kill for nothing?!I only see the actor in the role of Yagami Light, even though he plays a compassionate, vulnerable and right person in the film. His role in the death note is still in front of my eyes.

4/5

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The progenitor of all teenage dystopias and survival series. The motivation to take a school so that they cut each other and survive the most is very strange, but as if in the spirit of the Japanese

I wish I had seen this movie sooner. It was a good movie, but some scenes might seem a little silly, like the ones where the characters are shot multiple times and still manage to escape unharmed. However, she was way ahead of her time and paved the way for many similar films and TV shows.