Battle Royale User Reviews

Write a Review 4 user reviews Average score of 8.3 / 10 for Battle Royale
MarkWahlberg Nightmarish and Fascinating

Insanely violent, disturbing, and more than a little depressing, Battle Royale is an allegorical examination of the abuse children suffer at the hands of adults, although the message might be a bit too blood-soaked to be immediately apparent. This is not what you want to hear from your teacher.      The ...

Reviewed by MarkWahlberg on June 19, 2010
2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Ninja_Dozer Awesome if violent

Beat Kitano is one of my favorite actors to come out of Japan, Brother is a great piece of work and it's too bad he was part of the folly which is Johnny Mnemonic.  When you look at some of the cinema that has come out of Pacific Asia in the last ...

Reviewed by Ninja_Dozer on Feb. 10, 2011
PlyrYaKA Massively fun

Battle Royale is a film where Japanese school children fight to deaf with a variety of weapons on an island. I could leave this entry here and should have sold it well. Sometime in an anarchistic future the government sets up an initiative to scare off the worst behaved children ...

Reviewed by PlyrYaKA on July 23, 2011
GiveUpNed For TearsInRain

TearsInRain wanted my analysis of the family and horror elements to be put up as a review. Well ok, sorry if this isn't what you are looking for folks.Battle Royal is one of those films which come out of Japan and make people look and say to each other “WTF ...

Reviewed by GiveUpNed on Sept. 1, 2011
79 votes, 4.1 avg.

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Name Battle Royale
US Release Dec. 16, 2000
UK Release Sept. 14, 2001
AUS Release March 20, 2003
Runtime 122
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  • a reported budget of $4,500,000
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