This is the first time I have seen BR II since back in 2004. I didn't especially like it back then, and that hasn't changed. BR II is one of those unnecessary sequels companies love to put out when the first movie is a success. It doesn't hit nearly as hard as the first one did. Way too long, and very boring. The anti-war rhetoric the makers went for, is lost in a sea of incomprehensible drivel, typical Japanese over-acting, and giant plot holes. Stay way clear of this, and rewatch the original instead. It's a way better film...

Sadly, only a shadow of the original movie. While the twin linked collar idea seemed interesting on paper, it didn't have the cold psychological friend on friend violence that we all loved in the first. Not to mention, [spoiler]they rapidly got the collars off anyway. So there went any hope of more "danger zone" deaths as well. [/spoiler]They only had a few gimmicks, and they ditched them all for no good reason. Which led to it mostly being hail upon hail of gunshots. And not entertaining hails, just repetitive and indistinct hails where you can't really tell who is even shooting what. Quite a disappointing effort overall. Don't even get me started on the other stuff that was shoehorned in poorly.

Now it's against adults and the United States.

[spoiler] The first part is stupid, instead of bombing the island, send children without experience, if a child dies his partner dies, go assault shit, in the 50th minute the assault ends and waste time, and was missing 1 hour, the leave [/spoiler] I read in filmaffinity that everyone is very wrong, I did well not to finish it

Pretty bad movie sadly. If you like the first one like I do then I would recommend to stay away from this one. Also this movie have one of the worst endings I have ever seen.