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UK Mall 1 - Battle Royale [2001]
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List Price: £15.99
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Manufacturer: Tartan Video
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sosuke Takaoka
Directed By: Kinji Fukasaku
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5023965440327
Format: PAL
Label: Tartan Video
Manufacturer: Tartan Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Tartan Video
Release Date: 2002-01-21
Running Time: 109
Studio: Tartan Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001-11-21
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Slightly Disapointing
Comment: After all the hype surrounding this film, I expected it to be a 5 star blockbuster, but I have to say that I was slightly disappointed with the film.
The Positives:
~ All the actors were excellent in their roles and gave believeable performances.
~ The idea was highly original and well executed.
~ All the characters get an equal amount of screen time.
The Negatives:
~People go on about how gruesome the gore is, but I found the gore to be quite tame, there are lots of films out there with much worse gore.
~I knew who going to survive from the get-go.
~The ending was predictable.
Don't get me wrong, Battle Royale is a very good film, but after all the hype, I expected something more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Damn the japanese know how to make awesome horror movies! ! ! !
Comment: Man I just watched this film one of the best horror films i've seen in a long time this makes the grudge(american remake) look like a comedy. Be warned this is subtitled so that might piss off some people but that's fine by me as long as it's a good horror movie and this movie is a great one indeed. Fantastic storyline, gory, great characters, great twists. This aint a horror movie like the grudge, the ring or the excorcist(all great horror movies by the way), after you watch it you get a creepy feeling inside you I don't really know how to describe this horror movie this has too be seen. If you're sick of crappy american remakes or their ever so boring teen slashers or whatever, you aint seen nothing till you watched this. Clever, creepy, not your average horror movie masterpiece.
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Summary: A GREAT VARIATION OF LORD OF THE FLIES
Comment: What can I say? This film is ultra violent and really great. Beat Takeshi is in it and does a great as usual job portraying the teacher in charge of the Battle Royale. The psychological aspect was taken into consideration as well, giving the film more depth that it would have had if made in the States, no doubt. A brilliant film based on a brilliant novel.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Brilliant
Comment: I love this film; it is one of my all time favourites. I had heard so much about how violent and awful it was and did not expect to like it at all. In fact it was a well written, well acted film about a most horrific situation for a group of school kids to find themselves in.
To me this film is about trying to survive not trying to kill, yes some of the kids enjoy the killing part but most of them are just trying to survive and help each other find a way to escape.
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Summary: Battle Royale - No 14 - All Time List 2008
Comment: Once upon a time I was a University student without any interest in non English language Cinema, then I heard about Battle Royale on the university grapevine - I liked the sound of it so I went and got it from Virgin or whatever the DVD shop was in Stafford at the time, I could say it was a mistake because that venture alone has cost me thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours watching Asian cinema - this is where it started for me - sentimentality aside - this movie is fantastic in every sense - if it were not, would I be hooked to non-English language cinema like I am today? Who knows...
Battle Royale - a simple storyline 50 school kids on one Island, their mission, kill each other in a last boy/girl standing wins tournament. Intrigued by the sound of that? Read on. If it sounds repulsive, I'd look elsewhere and save yourself a few hours of your life.
However, Battle Royale is much more that mindless repulsive ultra-violence, comparisons of A Clockwork Orange are formed in the mind immediately with the sweeping operatic music which accompanies the roll-calls during the movie - it also, as you can imagine, does have some very violent, graphic and disturbing images throughout the movie. Kids killing each other literally with whatever they can lay their hands on be it a hatchet, a gun, a knife etc.
A modern day Lord of the flies as numerous reviewers' state, it could be.
What makes this film a yard ahead of most violent films (and a whole different ball game to slasher rubbish like Saw/Hostel) is that it focuses strongly on the moral side of the children's psyche, portraying their dilemma at the ridiculous situation that they have been put in. The film centrals on the characters and the range of responses to this - Some have very few qualms about slaughtering their classmates, some commit suicide with their loved ones, some go into denial, some scheme looking after themselves others form groups with friends.
This is a dark, brutal and violent film, not for the faint-hearted but is so well made and that it makes eminently compelling viewing and is nothing but highly recommended.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Slightly Disapointing
Comment: After all the hype surrounding this film, I expected it to be a 5 star blockbuster, but I have to say that I was slightly disappointed with the film.
The Positives:
~ All the actors were excellent in their roles and gave believeable performances.
~ The idea was highly original and well executed.
~ All the characters get an equal amount of screen time.
The Negatives:
~People go on about how gruesome the gore is, but I found the gore to be quite tame, there are lots of films out there with much worse gore.
~I knew who going to survive from the get-go.
~The ending was predictable.
Don't get me wrong, Battle Royale is a very good film, but after all the hype, I expected something more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Damn the japanese know how to make awesome horror movies! ! ! !
Comment: Man I just watched this film one of the best horror films i've seen in a long time this makes the grudge(american remake) look like a comedy. Be warned this is subtitled so that might piss off some people but that's fine by me as long as it's a good horror movie and this movie is a great one indeed. Fantastic storyline, gory, great characters, great twists. This aint a horror movie like the grudge, the ring or the excorcist(all great horror movies by the way), after you watch it you get a creepy feeling inside you I don't really know how to describe this horror movie this has too be seen. If you're sick of crappy american remakes or their ever so boring teen slashers or whatever, you aint seen nothing till you watched this. Clever, creepy, not your average horror movie masterpiece.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A GREAT VARIATION OF LORD OF THE FLIES
Comment: What can I say? This film is ultra violent and really great. Beat Takeshi is in it and does a great as usual job portraying the teacher in charge of the Battle Royale. The psychological aspect was taken into consideration as well, giving the film more depth that it would have had if made in the States, no doubt. A brilliant film based on a brilliant novel.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Brilliant
Comment: I love this film; it is one of my all time favourites. I had heard so much about how violent and awful it was and did not expect to like it at all. In fact it was a well written, well acted film about a most horrific situation for a group of school kids to find themselves in.
To me this film is about trying to survive not trying to kill, yes some of the kids enjoy the killing part but most of them are just trying to survive and help each other find a way to escape.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Battle Royale - No 14 - All Time List 2008
Comment: Once upon a time I was a University student without any interest in non English language Cinema, then I heard about Battle Royale on the university grapevine - I liked the sound of it so I went and got it from Virgin or whatever the DVD shop was in Stafford at the time, I could say it was a mistake because that venture alone has cost me thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours watching Asian cinema - this is where it started for me - sentimentality aside - this movie is fantastic in every sense - if it were not, would I be hooked to non-English language cinema like I am today? Who knows...
Battle Royale - a simple storyline 50 school kids on one Island, their mission, kill each other in a last boy/girl standing wins tournament. Intrigued by the sound of that? Read on. If it sounds repulsive, I'd look elsewhere and save yourself a few hours of your life.
However, Battle Royale is much more that mindless repulsive ultra-violence, comparisons of A Clockwork Orange are formed in the mind immediately with the sweeping operatic music which accompanies the roll-calls during the movie - it also, as you can imagine, does have some very violent, graphic and disturbing images throughout the movie. Kids killing each other literally with whatever they can lay their hands on be it a hatchet, a gun, a knife etc.
A modern day Lord of the flies as numerous reviewers' state, it could be.
What makes this film a yard ahead of most violent films (and a whole different ball game to slasher rubbish like Saw/Hostel) is that it focuses strongly on the moral side of the children's psyche, portraying their dilemma at the ridiculous situation that they have been put in. The film centrals on the characters and the range of responses to this - Some have very few qualms about slaughtering their classmates, some commit suicide with their loved ones, some go into denial, some scheme looking after themselves others form groups with friends.
This is a dark, brutal and violent film, not for the faint-hearted but is so well made and that it makes eminently compelling viewing and is nothing but highly recommended.
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