Battle royale

Rating: 9/10 (21 December 2016)

I was in for a big surprise when I went to the theater, expecting something very similar to SW The Force Awakens. And I was in for a bigsurprise! There were no Jedi mind tricks and Sith force lightning. There was no love story with couples kissing in the middle of a gunfight. The conflict between armies and within them was not reduced to a mere 1 on 1 boss fight. There was only WAR. Blunt, grim, terrible WAR raging throughout the galaxy in all forms and sizes, from urban to space. And I loved every minute of it!
Especially nowadays with all the dirty little (or not so little) civil wars in which it is not clear who is fighting who and why, this movie shows that nobody is innocent, and suffering and loss can blur the line between right and wrong. In the end, everybody must remember why they started fighting in the first place.
Sacrifice and redemption, murderers and spies, traitors and terrorists, ambitious politicians and unlikely heroes. It's all included in the package!