With overpopulation being a problem, the government enacts the Battle Royal Act. Each year a lottery is held to select a class that will be sent to a remote island, given weapons, and a time limit of three days to become the only survivor. If the teenagers do not try to kill their friends or more than one survives, they all die.The kids are tracked via a necklace that will explode if they try to remove it or go too far away from their assigned partner. The actors playing the teenagers look like they are real teenagers rather than twenty somethings which makes the film very effective.
The kids reactions vary widely, with some banding together, others killing because they are afraid to die, and even a disturbed student who enjoys trying to kill the others. It's a very interesting and disturbing view of societal extremes.
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