Number Rolled: 80
Movie Name/Year: Battle
Royale II (2003)
Genre: Action
Length: 133
minutes
Rating: NR
Production Companies:
Fukasaku-gumi, GAGA, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Sega Corporation, TV
Asahi, Toei Company, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., WoWow
Producers: Kenta
Fukasaku, Kimio Kataoka, Hikaru Kawase, Masumi Okada
Director: Kenta
Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku
Writer: Kenta
Fukasaku, Norio Kida, Koushun Takami
Actors: Tatsuya
Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Shugo Oshinari, Ayana Sakai, Haruka Suenaga, Yuma Ishigaki,
Miyuki Kanbe, Masaya Kikawada, Yoko Maki, Yuki Ito, Natsuki Kato, Aki Maeda,
Riki Takeuchi, Takeshi Kitano, Masahiko Tsugawa
Shuya Nanahara may have escaped the games, but it certainly
wasn’t unscathed. As a result, his anger has led him to start a war between the
children and the adults. He’s a known terrorist now, responsible for explosive
crimes. Meanwhile, Shiori Kitano believes she knows who Shuya really is. Her
anger leads her to step in to the second Battle Royale in order to take him
down.
Battle Royale II
is a little older than the majority of the movies I work with, but I had to add
it to the list anyway. The first movie in the series amazed me and that led me
to voluntarily break my “rules.” Unfortunately, it wasn’t really worth it.
The plot seemed like it had a lot of potential, in theory.
In practice, I was pretty surprised.
Although the movie started out basically the same and had a
similar amount of gore, that was really all it had to do with the first movie.
The plot was jumpy, difficult to see as a cohesive story. On
top of that, the main character kept changing between Shuya, Shiori and Takuma,
not fluidly either. That made it extremely difficult to muster up any emotion
for any of the characters at all. In fact, since all the characters reacted the
exact same way to every stimulus, they were all kind of interchangeable.
Add to that the ridiculous acting of the main villain and it’s
almost difficult to watch. The only reason the score wasn’t lower is because
there were a few scenes that spoke to me.
Battle Royale II needed
to be about an hour shorter with a lot more substance.
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score – 30%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – 29%
Netflix’s Prediction for Me – 3.8/5
Trust-the-Dice Score – 1.5/5
The Random Rating:
R
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