Quote Originally Posted by DK View Post
If you people all seriously expected BRII to be just another Battle Royale then of course the film is going to be bad. But really, if it was just another battle royale it would have been pointless and ultimately boring, because there's only so many ways you can kill schoolkids before it gets kinda repetitive, and there's not much more you can do with the story. Plus, as already mentioned, the first film was based off a book, the second wasn't. For what it was, the second was a good film, the story was interesting, Riki Takeuchi is hilarious and surprisingly moving when he has to be, and again there was a good feeling of what happens to a group of friends when put under a certain situation, which is what the general idea of these two films is supposed to be about. Sure, the main lead overacted way too much, but other than that there was nothing wrong with the film at all.
Yeah, sure, except for the fact that if and when any important character needed to make a speech, the enemy would just stop shooting at them so they could make a poetic speech. Does this make any sense?

Oh, that, and the whole massacre at the beginning. We only get to know like 10 characters because most of them are killed off in the beginning.

The first Battle Royale was original and beautiful, in its own kind of way, and Battle Royale II was a sloppy mess that didn't make much sense.