We watched the Japanese ‘killfest’ Battle Royale a couple nights ago. My wife has been reading The Hunger Games series lately, and this movie is supposed to be similar (I haven’t read the books) in story.

I liked the movie but it is way gory. Kind of a ‘live’ anime in many ways, a sort of “lord of the flies” meets “any dystopian 70s flick” meets “Westworld” with over-the-top Japanese-style violence mixed in (how do those little kids know how to kill so efficiently)?

If you like this sort of thing, you’ll like this movie. If you don’t like kids dying within less than 10 minutes of the movie’s start – don’t watch it, your nightmares will begin shortly after you finish.

candybowl

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