Battle Royale on TONIGHT (Monday)

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Battle Royale
It's the not too distant future and teen crime is spiralling out of control - prompting the Japanese government to take drastic action. 42 school children are deliberately dropped on a remote Pacific island, given weapons (not of mass destruction, so calm down George) and left to annihilate each other in a very real death match. The ultimate winner – and there can be only one - is then deemed fit to return to Japanese society. Violent and humourous, Battle Royale is a thought provoking blood bath. Stars Takeshi Kitano and Taro Yamamoto. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. 11pm. C4.

tman

smeh. seemed like a steaming pile of shiat to me

Johnny Versace

Originally posted by tman
smeh. seemed like a steaming pile of shiat to me

It's actually (surprisingly) quite good. Saw it the other day. Defo worth watching!

iasc

ah its really good, beat takeshi is cool

ixoy

It's quite enjoyable, in a daft way, although not half as good as some folks make it out to be. Still worth a watch though and it's something the government should look into for dealing with the skanger threat.

Kain

It's a lot better then the poxy second film.

First film is deffenetly worth a look.

Miguel_Sanchez

I enjoyed it alright - the extended version is a bit slow at places though.

Maybe it was just me but I didn't think it was all that violent really.

Could be the auld desensitisation kicking in.

Grom

This film is quite good seen it allot of times and still enjoy it. I would agree what a previous poster above said about it being allot better than its counterpart the sequel.

The sequel is very badly written the action scenes are somewhat bleak and the tiny elements of melodramatic moments sickening.

However best part has to be

Where they are all in the shed then the psycho fellow throws in a head with a nade in it quality

Have to say if you like the first installment of this then check out a film called "City of God"

Agent Orange

The sequel is terrible.

Save for a fairly enjoyable 'Saving Private Ryan' rip-off near the beginning, it's long and boring.

Propz for starting the film with two skyscrapers being blown up and giving the US the finger throughout though.

weemcd

the film is totally and completley over rated, if it was a western film people would complain how weak the story is, and only because its asian it seems all cultured etc.

smeh. seemed like a steaming pile of shiat to me

ha ha go tman hit the nail on the head man

Crucifix

I saw it at a mates house, having no idea what I was about to see, which probably helped it alot. I thought it was pretty good.

evad_lhorg

Originally posted by Grom


Have to say if you like the first installment of this then check out a film called "City of God"

yea i saw city of god and i was like :eek: this is absolutely amazing



battle royale was also classic too.