A plot that doesn't live up to its title

Rating: 5/10 (18 August 2014)

The basis of the film seems to be that choice is the key to being human, yet what looks be a fast paced, action packed running/jumping/shooting flick, feels like watching a mash up of so many other similar stories as though the characters have no choice.
Following a brief introduction outlining, how after a world war, society in Chicago is split into factions, each providing a service to the whole of society, but seemingly completely separate in the way they run their lives. Following that, you have a Harry Potter sorting hat style scene and then the rest of the film follows the Twilight/Underworld/Hunger Games plot of a young couple against the system. Throw in some unresolved parenting/sibling issues, some Inception style CGI, Kate Winslet walking around like Jodie Foster in Elysium, and Maggie Q as, well, she's in the film, and it's easy to see who the target audience are; it's a teen flick.
Demonstrating the fact, casting Ben Lloyd-Hughes and Christian Madsen and dressing them in identical clothes, could have been a statement on the state of society and how people may look a like, but can act differently. Yet sadly the acting and camera work made it too hard to tell who had done what!
The film is based on a series of books, but compared to the first Hunger Games film, it doesn't seem fleshed out enough to continue the story on.