Ah. . .here it is. The most morally reprehensible film I’ve ever seen. It takes a lot to offend me. And I wasn’t so much offended by the plot (a class of 9th graders dropped onto an island and forced to kill one another) as the tumultuous shifts in tone, cheesy camera moves or complete inability to construct a plot or character. Basically, as you watch this film, and one of the “talking” scenes comes up, the dialogue and acting is so bad that you start getting itchy for more killing. Luckily more killing (and violent, bloody killing!) is just a moment away. This film is, essentially, killing porn. As a member of the ACLU, it goes against my nature to call for a boycott of anything — but a psychological inquiry of the makers of this film might be in order. I can take a shocking film. Starship Troopers may even be more violent that “Battle Royale,” but it has (a) humor and (b) a point, making it, in my opinion, one of the greatest films ever made. Salò, or 120 Days of Sodom is certainly the most disturbing film I’ve ever seen, but it is artfully made, has context and tone, (probably) has a point, and even though it is “far out” there is care taken to make it make sense. (does anybody understand what happened at the end of “Battle Royale?”)