kids' movie

Rating: 3/10 (26 March 2014)

It's a kids' movie. As my wife and I left the theater an 8-year-old behind us said he'd seen it three times. We could barely get through one showing. It's so bad that we broke into laughter at some of the silly, stereotypical dialog and predictable plot elements. Kate Winslet walks through her part as though she'd been blackmailed into appearing. Kafka it is not. Not even close. It is obviously derivative of Hunger Games and does not even pretend to be the morality play or political satire that some seem to think it represents. The closest it comes to a "genre" is a Hong Kong martial arts film, but most of those are better. None of the characters act or react like real people. It's not good science fiction, not good fiction of any other kind.