Battle Royale (2000)
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Chiaki Kuriyama
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Os intertítulos e o excesso de flashbacks comprometem um pouco o ritmo do filme, mas, de modo geral, a ação é muito bem conduzida e os personagens, satisfatoriamente desenvolvidos.
Races along with the swift, brutal precision of a samurai sword cutting through cotton.
The basic storyline just isn't very good, and any attempt to say anything meaningful or moving is ham-fisted and obvious, which quite simply isn't good enough for a film as in-your-face as this.
Its content will earn it a following from as many witless viewers as it will thoughtful ones, but that's no reason to condemn it
As twisted as it sounds, killing off 41 teens takes a great deal of creativity and an innate sense of pacing in order to avoid, well, cinematic boredom.
BATTLE ROYALE is a film that should not be easily ignored, and will not be easily forgotten...the faces of those kids are likely to linger long after the credits stop.
'Battle Royale' is another deeply flawed addition to the deeply offensive phenomenon of 'reality TV'.
A hell of an action movie, an admission that makes me feel a little guilty.
Ultimately Battle Royale falls attempting to stand on its politics alone. Its redeeming triumph is that it is immensely entertaining – either as a teenage film or hefty slice of exploitation.
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For a flick that was SO controversially violent it couldn't even earn a domestic theatrical release, New Line sure...

