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Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
Directed by Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku
Twitter Facebook Google+Action | Drama | Science Fiction
Most recently watched by twobitme, sleestakk
Overview
It’s three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of “teamwork”, the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
Rated NR | Length 155 minutes
Actors
Shugo Oshinari | Ai Maeda | Tatsuya Fujiwara | Ayana Sakai | Takeshi Kitano | Natsuki Kato | Aki Maeda | Riki Takeuchi | Takeru Shibaki | Makoto Sakamoto | Yuki Ito | Ryo Katsuji | Kenji Harada | Munetaka Aoki | Kei Tamura | Toshiyuki Toyonaga | Kotaru Kamijou | Masaya Kikawada | Kazuki Yamamoto | Miyuki Kanbe | Haruka Suenaga | Michiho Matsumoto | Asami Katsura | Asuka Shingu | Nana Yanagisawa | Aja | Hitomi Hasebe | Mika Kikuchi | Yuma Ishigaki | Yoko Maki | Mitsuru Murata | Miku Kuga | Soko Wada | Ai Iwamura | Maki Hamada | Sonny Chiba | Masahiko Tsugawa | Yoshiko Mita | Kazutoshi Yokoyama | Kayo Nayuki | Yuuko Morimoto | Chisato Miyao | Sae Shimizu | Rika Sakagushi | Maika Matsumoto | Ayumi Hanada | Anne Kudo | Minami Kanazawa | Ami Nakagawa | Shoko Sato | Aiko Moriuchi | Musashi Kubota | Yasutaka Yuuki | Takaaki Ikeyama | Takeshi Tanaka | Kouta Yamada | Ryoji Fujihira
Viewing History (seen 2 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/06/2012 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 6 stars |
| 01/25/2009 | TV | DVD | Rented | 7 stars |
| (Average) 6.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
A sequel to the wildly successful Battle Royale that has neither the shock nor the impact of the first. While the plot of the first Battle Royale bordered on silly, the sequel pushes that completely off the cliff into the land of ridiculousness.
The thing that makes BRII a bit of a chore to sit through is all the gloppy melodrama and the extended soliloquies on, well, I’m not entirely sure what. BRII is chock full of the same kind of mock heroism that’s found in the Rambo movies, only without any discernible ‘cause’ driving the characters forward. In other words, they’re fighting for something, I just could never really tell what it was.
You’re better off ignoring the plot and just wallowing around in the violence, of which there’s plenty.
Streamed off Netflix Instant as part of my Battle Royale Double Feature Friday.
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