I was all prepared to pummel this with my lacerating wit and put it down like a, like a, like something that is really down deep. But in the end it was an OK film, albeit targeted fair and square at the 12 to 18 year old demographic that will lap up this sort of adventure-lite.
The story may be a little different than most of the tripe targeted at this group: To memorialize a crushed rebellion 70 odd years earlier, this society has devised a game where each of the 12 provinces pick one girl and one one boy between the ages of 12 and 18 to fight to the death in The Hunger Games.
Just why that was deemed an appropriate memorial was not explained, nor explainable perhaps.
It was way better than I expected, but still somehow lacking. There was nothing that tested the intellect, and it was too obviously set up for the sequels that represent each of the books in the series.
All in all, about as much as the little beggars deserve.
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