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Battle Royale

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Battle Royale (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 16  Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.2/10

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Chiaki Kuriyama

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

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A modern classic about the folly of violence.

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07/23/07 05:22 PM
Rob Gonsalves
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12/30/06 05:59 AM
Empire Magazine
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What it does have is plenty of splatter, noise and energy.

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11/07/06 02:22 PM
Dennis Schwartz
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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.

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05/26/06 08:11 PM
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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01/26/06 03:16 AM
Time Out
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12/06/05 07:54 PM
Film Threat
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Races along with the swift, brutal precision of a samurai sword cutting through cotton.

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05/03/05 05:27 PM
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness
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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.

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08/12/03 05:16 PM
Rich Cline
Film Threat
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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

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06/30/03 12:53 PM
Shane Burridge
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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.

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05/01/03 06:29 PM
Norm Schrager
Filmcritic.com
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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.

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04/03/03 12:42 AM
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com
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03/10/03 09:05 AM
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
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'Battle Royale' is another deeply flawed addition to the deeply offensive phenomenon of 'reality TV'.

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02/13/03 07:53 AM
Tom Grealis
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)
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A hell of an action movie, an admission that makes me feel a little guilty.

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12/23/02 03:26 PM
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies
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11/10/02 08:36 AM
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]
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10/30/02 08:39 AM
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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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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08/13/02 08:05 AM
Rumsey Taylor
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
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03/05/02 08:05 AM
Jeremy Heilman
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01/27/02 08:07 AM
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken's Horror Films
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12/10/01 06:24 PM
Rich Cline
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