12.6.09

battle royale II: requiem (2003)

aka Batoru rowaiaru II: Rekuiemu. Battle Royale 2: Revenge. Battle Royale II.
Three years on from "Battle Royale," and the world is in even more turmoil. The government is determined to track down a terrorist group and their leader Shuya who is hellbent on destroying the government. So in order to do so they kidnap and force a class of school children to try and do what they have failed to do, and all in a 72 hour period or they will all die themselves. Obvious really!
Yet more social satire in this follow up to the successful Battle Royale, unfortunately the director died on the first day and was replaced by his son, who fails to show any of his fathers finese. The action is well directed but the movie ends up confused, with too many characters and too many plot holes to live up to the previous installment.

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