Battle Royale 3D (2000)
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 43
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 6
Battle Royale is a controversial and violent parable of adolescence, heightening teenage melodrama with life-or-death stakes.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1
Battle Royale is a controversial and violent parable of adolescence, heightening teenage melodrama with life-or-death stakes.
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A long-unavailable underground hit that anticipated The Hunger Games novels by eight years, veteran director Fukasaku's epically violent, still-controversial and deeply influential genre masterpiece takes place in a dystopian alternate universe. In the near future, the economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared and juvenile crime has exploded. Fearful of its nation's youth, the Japanese government passes The BR Law: Each year, a 9th grade class is sent to a remote island where they will be
Jan 1, 2000 Wide
Mar 20, 2012
Anchor Bay Entertainment
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Cast
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Tatsuya Fujiwara
Shuya Nanahara -
Aki Maeda
Noriko Nakagawa -
Taro Yamamoto
Shougo Kawada -
Masanobu Ando
Kiriyama -
Kou Shibasaki
Mitsuko Souma -
Chiaki Kuriyama
Chigusa -
Takeshi Kitano
Kitano -
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Ai Maeda
Shiori Kitano -
Ai Iwamura
Smiling Winner -
Sousuke Takaoka
Hiroki Sugimura -
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All Critics (43) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (6) | DVD (28)
Stylistically it's a beauty, with khaki-uniformed waifs fighting for their lives to a crashing classical score.
Top CriticAwful deaths (and hysterical reactions to them) punctuate declarations of love and friendship, revelations of treachery and heavily armed expressions of angst.
Forgive the film its small flaws of histrionic performances and cheap execution for the giddy rush of its banal, Verhoevenesque atmosphere...
It may suit a certain worldview, but Battle Royale's cynicism is still a form fantasy-a balm as well as a bomb.
3D conversion of a classic teen massacre thriller raises the gore level.
Departing from two decades' worth of domestic and personal dramas and returning to his roots as Japan's maestro of mayhem, Kinji Fukasaku has delivered a brutal punch to the collective solar plexus with one of his most outrageous and timely films.
Before The Hunger Games there was Battle Royale. The bloody spectacle of Japanese schoolchildren being forced into a sadistic game of "last man standing" packs an emotional wallop.
A gloriously entertaining ride, provided you have a taste for dark material and don't mind the occasional poke in the ribs.
A wonderfully exciting, incredibly idiosyncratic actioner.
Maybe Battle Royale's ultimate punchline is its inexplicable ability to fool some people into taking it seriously.
Battle Royale's dystopia reflects a hyper-tech Japan still deeply concerned with social cohesion and the value-gaps between the generations. It's the disturbingly dark social frame, not its bloody canvas, that makes this a battle worth watching.
Fukasaku's set pieces are dynamic, composed and edited with a neatness that is missing from the shaky-camera esthetic of the movie's successor, 'The Hunger Games.'
Released in time to hopefully capitalize on The Hunger Games, this Blu-ray of a grossly overrated genre oddity is well-transfered but bereft of extras. The rapid fan is advised to pick up the three-disc gift set instead.
Battle Royale is a masterpiece of mayhem, violence and unfettered teen melodrama.
Battle Royale is The Hunger Games not diluted for young audiences.
Pitched with the insatiable verve of a TV game show and the vacant regret of a Grand Theft Auto videogame.
It gets no points for subtlety, but this confronting, devastating, hilarious and extremely fun film is a masterpiece all in its own right.
Gloriously sick and twisted. A masterpiece.
Disturbing, gory, shocking, and very original.
Audience Reviews for Battle Royale 3D
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- Kitano: If you hate someone, you take the consequences.
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- Kitano: The last one... Cookies sure were good.
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- Mitsuko Souma: [in her head] I just don't want to be a loser anymore.
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- Shuya Nanahara: NOBU! [Nobu's head explodes]
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- Kitano: So today's lesson is, you kill each other off till there's only one left. Nothing's against the rules.
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- Shougo Kawada: There's a way out of this game. Kill yourselves together, here, now. If you can't do that, then don't trust anyone... just run.
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Foreign Titles
- Battle Royale (Batoru rowaiaru) (DE)
- Battle Royale (UK)
