Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka (Battle Royale II) (2003)

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  April 13, 2012

  lewiskendell

  "Imagine the stirring sight of 42 youthful, passionate deaths!"
  
  How do you squander all the good things the original Battle Royale had going for it? By replacing the brutality and intimacy of it with long, monotonous firefights and empty political rhetoric. That's what Battle Ro... read moreyale II: Requiem does, and as a result, it's a shell of the first movie.
  
  I can understand the desire to move the overall story forward and not make the sequel a mere retread of the original, but this wasn't the way to do it. The new characters are almost universally unmemorable, compared to the several in the first movie that stuck in my mind after the very first viewing. The plot attempts to interject "big ideas" into the narrative, but instead makes the whole film tiresome, incoherent, and almost impossible to maintain interest in. The pacing is terrible, with long stretches where nothing happens, followed by long stretches where faceless soldiers endlessly fire across a room at characters you don't care about.
  
  In short, Battle Royale II can (and should) be skipped. It's not even worth seeing to find out the fates of the surviving characters from the first movie. Just watch Battle Royale again and pretend that's the end of it all.

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  May 12, 2011

  StarCrossedVoyager

  Started off well but the main character with blonde hair was incredibly annoying with his constant bulging eyes and shaking in anger. It was far too long, far too many SFX shots and so many false endings. Half way through it could have finished. It was too much of a coincidence t... read morehat the two men survived at the end and just simply a total mash up of the original. The bigger budget certainly has not worked to its advantage.

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  December 26, 2010

  ariuza1

  Really bad movie that just never lived up to what the first did, it just doesn't have any suspense or trilling scenes of violence or action. The first movie is my second favorite and I have seen it like a million times now there a second and I have only seen this 1 and half times... read more couldn't get throw it the second time.
  
  So after the failed of the first movie or the Battle Royale Program the two reaming survivors start a terrorist group called the wild seven that are responsible for destroying hundreds of building and killing lots of political, and civilians. So the game is different these kids have been giving 3 days to kill all of the wild seven and if your partner dies so do you.
  
  The ending wasn't really that shocking unlike the first just really average like the film so really everything is bad besides some entertaining action scenes.
  
  So if you love the first I wouldn't say see this.

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  October 13, 2010

  animegirlaya

  I loved Battle Royale it is truly one of my top ten, it was a really fine movie which almost deserves the title classic in my book. Other people also seemed to like it, judging from the great amount of money it made and all the positive comments here on rotten tomatoes. Unfortuna... read moretely whenever a movie does really well and there is an opening for a sequel in the end of it, a sequel will sooner or later come along. And that sequel will almost always be much worse than the first film. That's the case for Battle Royale 2. I am not going to wast much time writing this so.
  
  The story is actually pretty clever, so I won't spoil it for you but from there it's all downhill. This movie takes all the poetic style of the first one and makes it longer, slower and more pretentious. Sounds good? Well, however it may sound to you, it's NOT good. Battle Royale 2 has serious problems with pacing and the pace here is sometimes near nonexistent. It also suffers from being incredibly hard to follow since the story at times makes very little sense.
  
  With average to poor acting and very dull CGI Battle royal 2 proves to be the worst sequal in history. (Well one of them)
  
  If you really, really loved the first outing than there just might be something in it for you, otherwise you won't want to touch this with a ten foot pole.
  
  Keikos score 21-100

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  April 24, 2010

  thefog1331

  The first was no masterpiece but at least it was an entertaining thriller. The sequel however is a sloppy, misguided failure thanks to hammy, anime-style acting, a lack of plot or point and just plain dumb plot holes.

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  November 5, 2009

  DrBenway

  What in the shit happened here?
  
  When veteran director Kinji Fukasaku died during the making of Requiem, his son Kenta took up the reins. Does it ever show. One can't help but compare the film to its' predecessor which focused on the personal dynamics of the students and lef... read moret the audience to draw their own conclusions as to what the film had to say. The dark humor and social commentary in the first film (which can still be debated) are replaced by highly cartoonish action and even sillier interaction. Also, we have Beat Takeshi's "wearied school-teacher" character replaced by Riki Takeuchi, who looks as if he's stepped off a tour bus with rap group Public Enemy. His acting is just too over-the-top and without any emotional depth to be taken seriously. His scenes would be perfect in director Takashi Miike's tongue-in-cheek action flicks but in this film, it's a waste of credibility.
  
  Some points are awarded to the editing and the rhythm of the film. Camerawork is nice and you can say that too about the sound design. I'm sure this looked really good on paper, but without a strong director at the helm, you end up with results like this.
  
  Battle Royale With Cheese.
  
  

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  September 4, 2009

  SirPant

  Unfortunately the sequel is very disappointing. Its messy, tired and complicated. The original was so good, its should have been left at that.

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  May 8, 2009

  skactopus

  Kinji Fukasaku, the man that brought the great Battle Royale to life, sadly ends his career with a sequel worth forgetting.

  As much as I want to say that this sequel is different from its predecessor, watching Battle Royale will help setup this film because there

  ... read moreare few explanations to build up what is happening.

  The story is a mess, except for the beginning, which actually feels like its on the right track. The pacing of the first 50 minutes is fast. It is actually too fast. I don't want to spoil anything, but before this film even reaches 30 minutes, 20+ of the 42 students cease to exist.

  The film also finds a way to drag itself out to a few minutes past 2 hours. But didn't nearly half the students die by the first half an hour mark? That is correct. What happens at around 1 hour is a change in the story, which makes keeping track of students useless. Yet the film does it anyway. The story becomes boring and the character buildup is lame.

  The action is a plenty, since nothing else is really going on. There is a lot of blood, explosions, and shootings. The camerawork, on the other hand, is decent at best. There are times where there is just too much shaking going on.

  The acting is decent enough, although the lack of character depth doesn't help. Riki Takeuchi is the most eccentric out of everybody.

  Sorry to say, but this is a movie to pass up. Fans of the first Battle Royale should just watch it again.

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  August 3, 2008

  Stinger839

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  Added 1 star because of top production value and because I like the new "welcome to BR/take your packs" scene. The story and premise still suck, and this is full of too many missed opportunities for or awkward inclusion of minute, but important, references to the first mo... read morevie.
  
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  What can I say other than "this sucks because it is completely without direction and a resounding theme (or even just a decent one) but instead is just a restaging of many famous battle scenes, except with teenaged kids in stupid uniforms (they have ORANGE in them) instead of Nazis, Navy Seals, Green Berets, or typical adult army grunts".
  Here the "kids' view vs. the grownups' view" is downplayed due to an emphasis on a political commentary on the United States as a nation that is obsessed with "bombing terrorists" and has the long list of nations bombed to prove it (That's what the lesson is at the beginning, not stuff about BR and the internal stresses in Japanese society causing the BR Act, but which countries the US has bombed in the last fifty years (to which I say, look at everyone else's records too; fifty years is a long time). But I guess it is saying something about the outgoing Bushie that even as early as 2003, foreign genre films were already laced with an anti-Bush backbone.
  Another large statement is trying to be made about "terrorists", how the only difference between "revolutionary" and "terrorist" is the outcome of the declared war. A true thing, but not communicated properly; they should have read Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta" granted the movie version wasn't out yet but that central idea and concise execution has existed for hundreds of years. Just take a better model from the political war genre and plug in your characters and instantly this could have been a great B version of 'City of God'.
  Get the first movie in a high definition version; don't waste time on this misstep of a sequel.

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  March 29, 2008

  kiriyamakazou

  Over the top? Deffinately. Heavy handed? Certainly. Dissapointing? Pretty much. Entertaining? Oh yeah. Okay so following up the cult classic in your father's shadow is bound to be hard and yes the film lacks any form of subtlety in getting its message across. It is though a wild ... read moreride with some fantastic action set pieces in and characters you can genuinely feel for. Not much sense is made and it is overlong but it still had me entranced.

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