Bad casting. Bad acting.

Rating: 4/10 (22 March 2014)

First, I didn't read the book. Whatever you will read in this review comes purely from a perspective of a film practitioner and ordinary movie fanatic.
The wrong choice of actors made the film looks bad. The characters, especially the main characters, were not convincing even Kate Winslet and Ashley Judd. The facial reactions, the delivery of the dialogues! arggghhh!!!
The story is obviously inspired from Hunger games. Maybe some of the viewer's will deny it, but no no no! I think the idea is somehow related to Hunger games!
Pacing is good. Somehow it also made me laugh with some scenes but mostly I laughed because of, I think, disappointment!!! >:/
the soundtrack is also not good, even the timing of musical score... it doesn't have rhythm! @_@
I don't know, maybe if they only have good characters, and a good screenplay...maybe it will separate them from comparing to Hunger games.