The Hunger Games - A Review

4 Stars - Promising

 

Other than the huge waste of Toby Jones... it's pretty darn good.

Hunger games is based on the first of a trilogy of books that I have not read. So I can't compare it as an adaptation.

It is a film about 24 children being forced to battle each other to the death for people's entertainment.

The film is very competently put together and doesn't treat the younger audience like they're idiots, which is a very important thing to me, as there is so much crap nowadays that doesn't think kids can think.

The performances were decent throughout, I found Jennifer Lawrence to be initially dull, but once the story got really going it went away and she became very easy to relate to, and it is very nice to see a strong, intelligent female character.

However the film stealing roles are Woody Harrelson and Stanley Tucci, both of whom bring a lot of wonderful comedy to the film which at times is well needed to break the tension.

Some of the action scenes have way too much shaky cam, which makes it difficult to tell just what the hell is going on, which is something of a negative.

Where were all my lines?

I ate them with the rest of the scenery

 

To sum up this is a promising start to what will no doubt be an entertaining film trilogy, well worth seeing.