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Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)

Directed by Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku

Action | Drama | Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sensoria, 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

Sonny Chiba | Takeshi Kitano | Tatsuya Fujiwara | Aki Maeda | Mitsu Murata | Yuma Ishigaki | Riki Takeuchi | Soko Wada | Shugo Oshinari | Ryo Katsuji | Kazuki Yamamoto | Munetaka Aoki | Masaya Kikawada | Hitomi Hasebe | Yoshiko Mita | Masahiko Tsugawa | Makoto Sakamoto | Yoko Maki | Toshiyuki Toyonaga | Natsuki Katô | Ayana Sakai | Kazutoshi Yokoyama | Asami Katsura | Haruka Suenaga | Yuki Ito | Takeru Shibaki | Nana Yanagisawa | Ai Iwamura | Mika Kikuchi | Aja | Kei Tamura | Miyuki Kanbe | Yasutake Yuboku | Miku Kuga | Kotaru Kamijou | Yuuko Morimoto | Michiho Matsumoto | Kenji Harada | Ayumi Hanada | Ryoji Fujihira | Shoko Sato | Riasu Arama | Kouta Yamada | Ai Maeda | Maki Hamada | Takaaki Ikeyama | Minami Kanazawa | Chisato Miyao | Rika Sakagushi | Maika Matsumoto | Aiko Moriuchi | Ami Nakagawa | Takeshi Tanaka | Musashi Kubota | Kayo Nayuki | Sae Shimizu | Asuka Shingu

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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