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  • Battle Royale (2000)
    Review preview for Battle Royale

    The pornography of violence is a phrase banded about by armchair critics. What does it mean? It means Battle Royale.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Futuristic Japanese survival gameshow where school children fight for their lives.
  • Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
    Review preview for Battle Royale II: Requiem

    All that really comes across is a muddle of vague liberal humanist sentiments that sits awkwardly alongside an unquestioned command of action mayhem.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 2.5 out of 5
    Japanese high school kids are forced to hunt down a dangerous renegade, or die.

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