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Battle Royale
Could you kill your best friend?
Could you kill your best friend?
Action, Drama, Thriller - 2000
7.6
88%
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In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
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Details

Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
123 min
Release date:
16 Dec 2000
Country:
JP
Languages:
Japanese
Budget:
$4,500,000
Revenue:
$25,000,000
Awards:
7 wins & 9 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
3D conversion of a classic teen massacre thriller raises the gore level.
– Maggie Lee,
Hollywood Reporter,
22 May 2012
fresh:
It may suit a certain worldview, but Battle Royale's cynicism is still a form fantasy-a balm as well as a bomb.
– Eric Hynes,
Village Voice,
22 May 2012
fresh:
Forgive the film its small flaws of histrionic performances and cheap execution for the giddy rush of its banal, Verhoevenesque atmosphere...
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
22 May 2012
fresh:
Awful deaths (and hysterical reactions to them) punctuate declarations of love and friendship, revelations of treachery and heavily armed expressions of angst.
– A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
24 May 2012
fresh:
Stylistically it's a beauty, with khaki-uniformed waifs fighting for their lives to a crashing classical score.
– Sara Stewart,
New York Post,
25 May 2012
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