BR II

I just watched Battle Royale 2 last night... Better blog about it coz its a forgettable film, i already dun remember much about e show...

I haf no idea y it took me so long to get to tis movie... I like e 1st one, but when the movie sequel was screened at Cineleisure yrs ago, i was underage unfortunately... During then there was no NC16 or M18, so e movie was rated RA (21) i think... Well, not tt i haf a prob wif e underage issue, just tt its not worth it to risk e ticket money for tt movie...

While i was interested, Battle Royale is not e kind tt i would bear to forfeit my money if i was caught...

I was browsing for new Gackt clips (i do tt daily but not only about Gackt), then i saw one fan made a BR2 MV usin his song... And then i after watching i thot, yahor, y i never watch tt movie ar...

So anyways, i watched wif my sis last night and she fell asleep halfway thru... Lol...

Movie critics were on 2 extreme ends, either u love it or u hate it...

For me, since i already noe, i am not all tt disappointed... I already noe how its coming...

The movie was too long for its genre... Its 2 hrs plus, for a violent movie (supposedly), tts way too much... U can tell they tried to push the film and added lots of scenes where theres long dialogs... To make things worst, they spoke in a slow old fashion manner (imagine young cute actors speaking tt way, tts abit nerve wrecking)...

A typical 1 hr and 1/2 is enuff to showcase a very tight and exciting storyline... Further more, theres isnt much story in tis kind of movie anyway, its not drama...

U noe those typical movie scenes where the casts are trying to teach e audience some moral grds/values on evil/good ppl, how we live our lives, e reality of e world of adults, how dominating countries create war, how many innocent lives lost, etc? Yup, tonnes of those scenes... I think tis is e reason y e movie received e worst reviews on tt end...

Ppl watched BR1 for e gore n violence, they werent expecting the sequel to be full of slow preaches (again, by very young cute guys at tt)...

BR1 is a sick movie, u see how e grp of classmates and even close/best frens doubt one another, and eventually killing one another off for their own survival... We all r sick anyways, so we enjoy these kind of movies where humans kill off one another for their own self... Disgustingly sick, bloody but exciting it at e same time... Often in these kind of movies, u would wonder how e next person's gonna die and u anticipates...

BR2 broke away fr tt... Its no longer selfish senseless killings... At least there was a reason now, and whether valid or not tts another thing...

Instead of killing each other, they now haf to kill e leader of a terrorist grp, who was e male survivor of BR1 (yea, Kira~ urgh)... He formed a terrorist grp and launched attacks on e adults for revenge... Sworing to kill off all e adults in tis world so tt they could let e children live n smile peacefully and openly once again...

So tis time, its war, not a survival game... The students were equipped wif combat weapons and uniforms, being sent to e island where e terrorists were hiding... They had to kill e leader within 72 hrs...

The students were abit different, they were not as smart as the 1st... Many of them r cowards n losers... Tis time they chose a class of losers/ah bengs/lians/delinquents, so its different compared to the class of BR1... Which explains y more than half of e class were already killed even be4 e main action started...

They were also matched in pairs, if one dies, ur necklace explodes... Also they haf to stay in a 50 m range as well... I haf no idea y they did tt, perhaps only to torture e students... Coz on one hand they used e students to kill their common enemy, on the other hand, they keep some of e old rules to get rid of most of them as well... Totally double standards, i couldnt understand... Maybe e adults r jus having fun watching e whole damn thing...

But i see no students having known e pairing rule, protect or even work together wif their partners... But like i said, they arent smart students... So u see most of them died coz their partners died... Abit pathetic... They dun use their brains, so they dun work together nor come up wif plans or form allies which were some exciting parts of BR1... For tis class, e survivors were more like random killing and shooting...

Oh e girls of BR1 were really smart n evil at the same time... E girls of this class were mainly just running n screaming ard and getting killed... They kept freaking out all e way... Made me abit pissed.... Haha... Then u see all e guys very gung ho and go shooting like theres no tmr...

Lots of explosives/bullets used in tis film... Their methods of killing were military based, so nothing interesting there... BR1 they gave them random weapons, it can be a paper fan or pot depending on ur luck... Lol... Tis one everyones equipped wif rifles...

There was a major plot overlook which i saw... But i dismissed it as maybe e director forgot...

Tis movie is better in quality compared to e 1st... I am not toking about video quality... Quality as in filming qualities, e props, sets, etc... I cant stand some fake CG stuffs though... The cast were also better looking in general... The 1st one was more random...

I wont really say tt its a bad sequel due to one simple reason, it wasnt e same director...

The director of BR1 passed away due to cancer after only shooting e 1st scene of BR2... So his son took over in honour of his Dad since he wrote e script anyways ... Tt to me, is a gd enuff reason to support tis movie...

The pacing goes up n down, it started off slow, then e same thing as of e 1st, e bus, then brought to tis place, then e explanation etc... Very draggy coz we all still remember mah... Then e action started, it was quite thrilling and then everything stopped... After e surviving kids turned to the terrorists, it became like a drama, hearing stories etc... Tt was where my sis fell asleep... Lol... And then lastly the action picked up for a final confrontation, and then ended wif a slow ending...

Oh, one interesting aspect was e daughter of the teacher of BR1, appeared n joined the BR act in tis one in order to find out y her Dad was fascinated wif e female lead of BR1 and also to avenge him... I thot e character was pretty interesting, but e character wasnt used to e fullest, it pretty much fell flat in the middle, she became jus a sick kick ultimately...

For Br1 i like e extra 2 characters in the game, they were so cool and interesting... For tis one, theres no such kind of anticipation...

Maybe younger ppl would be more fascinated learning things about e real world, reality, wars etc... But as for e more mature adults, they mus haf thot its boring as hell...

The show is rather political as well, although done in a subtle manner... Constantly protraying the America bully power, how they bombed all the countries in e past 20 yrs...

Also, e main lead seemed to be a ref to *cough* O s a m a *cough*... Tis is something i read, coz they said he wore e same white robe at the end of the movie... There were sufficient evidence in e movie to convey alot of references to real life situations... Maybe tis movie also makes u understand e terrorists slightly better, y they kept on fighting e losing war n y they would find new willing partners where ever they r...

Its trying to make u think twice about e current political situation...

To me, if its slightly leaning towards political perspectives, it should be done wif a documentary movie genre, so tt u can better explain things and clear things up... And not tryin to half heartedly say abit here n there in a teenager film... But maybe it can be considered as a window for start as well...

No matter, if u caught e 1st, theres no reason for u to not catch e second... Oh, tis one is not as gory as e 1st... Like i said, tis one focuses on more human politics...

Not bad lah, just abit too long... Very different in terms of style as well, maybe coz its a different director...