Dumbed-down Battle Royale adaptation

Rating: 1/10 (23 October 2014)

A big-budget Battle Royale remake film had all the chances of becoming a spectacular film that would be faithful to the original books written by Kousen Takami. Instead, what we get is mostly just the first third of the book expanded into an emoes-at-hogwarts film that is not entirely bad in its presentation inna TV-movie sort of way, but not what I would go to see this in the theaters for. The last tow thirds of Battle Royale's elements and characters are entirely left out, possibly for a sequel film but who knows, leaving us with a dumbed-down adaptation designed mostly to get people in the theater seats to watch it. The 2000 Toei version was much better at handling the entire story, compressed as it was for the amount of screen time the studio could afford to show it in. Let's hope and pray that this film succeeds at least enough to warrant a sequel where the rest of the Battle Royale saga gets properly introduced and we get to see stuff going down as in the original books.