Right now it's currently 4:13 A.M. Kuala Lumpur time, and no I did not just wake up, and no I am not staying up all night. This is just the effect of me not sleeping the right way for 3 days, I only slept like 1 - 3 hours a day and then yesterday afternoon I fell asleep while watching an episode of "The Simpsons" on my Alienware Laptop! Who would've thought that I would wake up at 1:27 A.M?
So since I was bored, I decided that I would write about the movie review of the second Battle Royale Movies, which is "Battle Royale 2 : Requiem". Oh ya, sorry for the long review, since After I finished watching this movie 2 days ago my friend asked me to play basketball and I totally forgot to write the review.
In the beginning of the movie, there was a "terrorist video clip" showing the survivors of previous Battle Royales, that is led by Shuya Nanahara (Main character of Battle Royale 1), have formed a terrorist group know as the "Wild Seven". A terrorist group that had declared a war on all adults. While a class of 42 teenagers from Shikanotoride Junior High School while on a trip and were on their way back to school are gassed and kidnapped by the Japanese government. Instead of normal Japanese students, these ninth graders are “a collection of delinquents and losers that had been collected from all over Japan,” including tough-guy rugby players and punks with dyed hair. More importantly, there are many students who are orphans and whose parents or family died in the bombings that are caused by the Wild Seven. After their school bus is diverted to an army base, the students are herded into a cage, surrounded by armed guards, and confronted by their home room schoolteacher, Riki Takeuchi, who lays down the ground rules of the new Battle Royale game (it was almost the same as the previous Battle Royale).
While Wild Seven is hiding out on a deserted island, and instead of being forced to kill each other, as in the old Battle Royale, the students are sent off to war and ordered to attack the terrorist group’s hideout and their mission is to kill Shuya Nanahara (terrorist leader) within 72 hours. Most of the students were not interested in being forced to avenge their families, but are forced to participate in the game because they are afraid to die from the exploding collars around their necks (which were placed when they were gassed and kidnapped), which their captors can detonate by remote control. The teacher shows them a line that is cut in the middle of the caged room, there are two sides, right for the winners and left for the losers. Those who wish to participate will have to cross the line to the winners side and those who doesn't will be killed. The students are put into 'pairs'; if one student dies, then his or her partner will be killed via collar detonation. The teacher had not mention that in the beginning but along the movie the students figure out for themselves.
The students are sent via boats onto the dangerous island base of the Wild Seven, and a number of them are killed when they were bomb-shelled, shot or their collar detonated during the boat ride onto the island, leaving only a half of them alive. Most notably, two of the survivors are the main protagonist Takuma Aoi, and Shiori Kitano (the daughter of Kitano, the "teacher" from the first film who died after being shot by Shuya at the end of the movie). On the island the Wild Seven had killed most of the students through traps and bullets. Little did they know that the students were actually forced to attack the Wild Seven. Then with only a handful of students left they finally reached the outskirts of the Wild Seven's base. When one of the Wild Seven's shooters caught a glimpse of the collars around the students necks and the students were taken into the Wild Seven's base, the surviving students' explosive collars are removed and they are encouraged to help the members of the Wild Seven stop the Battle Royale for good.
While most of the survivors agree, Takuma and in particular Shiori remain unconvinced. Shuya sends a video message to the world of their goal to live free. Because of the pressure from the video, the U.S. government had launched 1 missile to the island causing part of the Wild Seven's base to be destroyed as a warning shot. In response to the video and pressure from the U.S. government, the Japanese prime minister takes command of the military present at the Battle Royale headquarters and orders an attack on the island base, with no survivors allowed. On Christmas Day, the war between the Wild Seven and the military occurs, the elite soldiers of the Japanese military attack the base of Wild Seven. At the end of the first battle there were numerous casualties on both sides. Survivors of Wild Seven retreated to the mainland via a mine shaft, leaving Shuya, Takuma and Shiori as the only remaining fighters alive versus the hundreds of soldiers left on the island. Takeuchi appears in a rugby uniform with a bomb collar around his neck (he was actually being forced to lead the students against Wild Seven), and after a brief and personal exchange, Takeuchi allows the group to flee as he sacrifices himself. After killing about 100 soldiers, Shiori is shot and dies in Shuya's arms, seemingly forgiving him and Noriko Nakagawa (other main character in the first Battle Royale) for their past crimes. Shuya and Takuma run out to kill the rest of the soldiers.
Several months later, Shuya and Takuma rejoin the other survivors, including Noriko, in Afghanistan and go their separate ways, hoping to live their lives without any further conflict.
This is an awesome ending to the movie and I am gong to give a ascore of 8.5 / 10 for this one. Yes this is an awesome movie, but I didn't get the thrill like I did when I watched the first movie. And this movie is also rated "R" so those who watch should be at least 18 years of age, also this movie is not so uch of a horor movie anymore, this movie is more like an action packed battle movie or something like that.
Now for some Pics!!!!
The Delinquent students of Shikanotoride Junior High School inside a cage
The Evil which is actually not-so-evil Teacher
Voila the cover for Battle Royale II : Requiem (I downloaded the movie from pirate bay)
The Wild Seven with Shuya Nagahara in the middle holding an Ak-47 Kalashnikov (Awesome!!!)
So that is all for the movie review for Battle Royale 2 and for this post. It took me awhile to write this one so I'm sorry guys, I'll try to write the next review as soon as I finish watching it so it would be fresh in my memory!
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