Battle Royale

Battle Royale (Japanese: バトル・ロワイアル; Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru) is a Japanese dystopian action thriller film adapted from the best-selling 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami.

Plot
In the near future, the economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared and juvenile crime has exploded. Fearful of their nation’s youth, the Japanese government passes The BR Law: Each year, a 9th-grade class is sent to a remote island where they will be locked into exploding neck collars, given a random weapon, and forced to hunt and kill each other until there is only one survivor left.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The concept and analysis of Battle Royale, about many people fighting each other to the death on an uninhabited remote island until the last person standing to be rewarded freedom, is very creative.
 * 2) * The genre of Battle Royale (or Battle Royal) has become so popular that it began to rise in various media, most notably was The Hunger Games series, mh:crappygames:PUBG: Battlegrounds and Fortnite.
 * 3) It is very faithful to the novel that was based on.
 * 4) Likable and powerful characters who try to survive and work with each other and even have tragic backstories from Shuya Nanahara to Noriko Nakagawa, Shogo Kawada and the other survivors.
 * 5) The death scenes are very brutal, and also emotive.
 * 6) Excellent casting choices like Takeshi Kitano, who portrayed the main antagonist teacher Kitano.
 * 7) Marvelous soundtrack which is very thrilling, hear it here.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It caused controversy due to the graphic violence featured in the film.
 * 2) The sequel isn't received well.
 * 3) The English dub was atrocious

Reception
Battle Royale got overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and audiences alike.

On Metacritic, the movie has a critic rating of 81/100 ("universal acclaim") and a user score of 7.9/10 ("generally favourable reviews").

Trivia

 * Quentin Tarantino (known for directing Pulp Fiction) said Battle Royale was his favourite film. He says: "If there’s any movie that’s been made since I’ve been making movies that I wish I had made, it’s that one."
 * Chiaki Kuriyama, who played Takako Chigusa in the movie, won her role as Gogo Yubari in Kill Bill thanks to her role in the former.