Battle Royale II: Requiem — This time it's war.

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Battle Royale II: Requiem

Name: Battle Royale II: Requiem
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 2003-07-05
Duration: 2 h 35 min
Rating: 2.5
Cast: Shugo Oshinari, Ai Maeda, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ayana Sakai, Takeshi Kitano

2003 5 10.7K NR views saved

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.

Countries: JP

Languages: Japanese

Content Rating: NR

Runtime: 2hrs 35min

Status: Released

Release date: 2003-07-05

Release format: Streaming — Nov 08, 2012

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@selection16 6 years ago

Sadly, only a shadow of the original movie. While the twin linked collar idea seemed interesting on paper, it didn't have the cold psychological friend on friend violence that we all loved in the first. Not to mention, [spoiler]they rapidly got the collars off anyway. So there went any hope of more "danger zone" deaths as well. [/spoiler]They only had a few gimmicks, and they ditched them all for no good reason.

Which led to it mostly being hail upon hail of gunshots. And not entertaining hails, just repetitive and indistinct hails where you can't really tell who is even shooting what. Quite a disappointing effort overall. Don't even get me started on the other stuff that was shoehorned in poorly.

@beardedonewatches 3 years ago

This is the first time I have seen BR II since back in 2004. I didn't especially like it back then, and that hasn't changed.

BR II is one of those unnecessary sequels companies love to put out when the first movie is a success. It doesn't hit nearly as hard as the first one did. Way too long, and very boring. The anti-war rhetoric the makers went for, is lost in a sea of incomprehensible drivel, typical Japanese over-acting, and giant plot holes.

Stay way clear of this, and rewatch the original instead. It's a way better film...

@juliosoft 6 years ago

[spoiler] The first part is stupid, instead of bombing the island, send children without experience, if a child dies his partner dies, go assault shit, in the 50th minute the assault ends and waste time, and was missing 1 hour, the leave [/spoiler]
I read in filmaffinity that everyone is very wrong, I did well not to finish it

@d2freak 9 years ago

Pretty bad movie sadly. If you like the first one like I do then I would recommend to stay away from this one. Also this movie have one of the worst endings I have ever seen.

@spobo 14 years ago

That I didn't know. But I recommended my friends not to see it. A terrible movie! They should have just left it with the first :)

@dunpealhunter 14 years ago

Too bad Kinji Fukasaku the director died after making the first scene. His son cannot direct at all. This would have been a totally different and better movie if the original director didn't die.

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