[Tom4784]

Battle Royale is one of the best films ever made, you'll either understand it or you won't. It's a film of extremes and it is over the top but it's purposely played like that as it's a satire of the youth culture of Japan. As much as I love THG I think Battle Royale has more going for it under the hood.

As far as comparisons go, there's similar books and films that predate both of them and I'd say the THG has more in common with The Running Man due to the television angle as well as the futuristic dystopian setting. The only comparisons between THG and BR is that they are both about a game of death involving children. The stories are quite different apart from that.