a farce

Bert 2022-04-19 09:02:39

Compared to the first, the second is so far off that I couldn't help but quickly pull the tabs after seeing that it was nearly an hour before the end.
After three years, the bloody scene in the second part has grown a lot. In the first part, it seems that the tragic death was deliberately weakened, but in the second part, the blood was splattered by a single shot and the explosion of the collar was quite frightening. However, after it showed considerable violence, it lost the essence of the original first part.
Nearly identical beginnings, poor plot, incoherent dialogue, and lots of illogical killings make for such a sequel.
The first one uses the help of a lonely middle-aged male teacher to deeply discuss human nature, while the second one is more ambitious and wants to talk about world peace. However, the methods and methods are so weak that they will actually let a group of middle school students who have never held a gun to deal with terrorists, and will let a few children break out of the siege and escape from the island to a similar Middle East area. A group of children were inexplicably killed by Qiyuan Qiuya and other terrorists at first, and then quickly defected to form an alliance with them, and then they were able to kill a special team composed of professional soldiers. At first, the teacher put on a distorted face that was almost exaggerated and wanted to learn the first part of the male teacher, and then inexplicably wearing a jersey and hugging the football came to a deep confession, how heroic he died, I was really dizzy .
Although there is no realistic bloody scene in the first part, there are beautiful seascapes and melodious music that are very disproportionate to the killing atmosphere from time to time, which makes people feel even more heavy; although the survival of the hero and heroine in the first part contains some luck, but there are many others. The deceased classmates, including the teachers, had distinct and impressive personalities. In the second part, everyone wailed with their helpless eyes wide open, and then died. They were basically characters who had seen it and forgotten it.
The gap between the second part and the first part is too big, and it can't be said that it is a continuation of the dog's tail.
I think the director's ambition is quite big, and he wants to talk about a far-reaching topic about world peace, but he chose the wrong material, which makes people feel very nondescript, very much like a farce directed and acted by a child in order to contradict adults. .

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Battle Royale II quotes

  • Masami Shibaki: [Shibaki gets shot, falls to the ground, then gets up slowly, in a weak voice] No big deal... I'm glad I made friends. Go now...

    Takuma Aoi: Shibaki!

  • Sensei: [walks in dressed in jersey holding a rugby ball] Yo! So you're Nanahara Shuya? I'm Takeuchi Riki. "We declare war against all adults." Gotta hand it to you, you've got guts. Every adult on earth wants you dead. From now on, you'll have to live with all the lives you've taken. Including my daughter, who died in your terrorist attack. Neither of us have anywhere to call home.

    [Riki's necklace begins to beep]

    Sensei: Boy #1 Aoi Takuma, Girls #4 Kitano Shiori. One question, in life there's only the winning or the losing. Is that really true?

    [explosion. Things shake]

    Sensei: Go. You'll only find the answer by living your life.

    [looks at the rugby ball]

    Sensei: I... always did want to play rugby with you guys...

    [another explosion. Riki's necklace beeps faster]

    Sensei: Just go. 3, 2, 1... go!

    [Riki runs and spikes the ball. His necklace explodes. And so does the bomb]