Not bad...but not very good

Rating: 7/10 (19 April 2014)

This movie definitely held my interest, but I had a lot of questions when I left the theater. I am not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, but I am getting little tired of these trilogy movies where you have to wait for the second book for things to really start to gel. Where are the really old people? Why are there no stores? Do they have currency? With one city, how does it not get over-populated? As you can tell, I haven't read the books. I may though. I downloaded a sample on Kindle. Everyone in it is very attractive. The whole movie is pretty neat looking. The general premise was a little derivative, but still an interesting enough concept and some of the details were interesting, like the names of the different factions and how each of them was kind of a caricature of the society. If it had less of a budget, it would be a SyFy original. I thought it had a better message than the first Hunger Games. It's obviously a statement on non-conformity.