Battle Royale,,,anybody see the movie?

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I recently finished the book, extremely entertaining. For those of you that dont know, it was a Japanese best seller recently translated into English. The premise is each year a Jr High class is chosen for the "Program". If chosen, the students are placed in an isolated area, this time it happens to be an island. Theyre each given different weapons and most fight to the death until there is one survivor. Again very entertaining.

Reason for the post, I was wondering if anybody saw the movie. Curious if it follows the book, and basically what you thought overall.