Nothing creative

Rating: 5/10 (10 May 2014)

While the production quality is high, and the acting good, the story follows an uncreative teenage fiction formula and hence is very predictable.
The hand-to-hand combat scenes are quite clumsy, and the training lacks originality and the "evil" characters are not nuanced and thus very one dimensional. Overall there are few memorable moments.
Viewers that enjoy this genre, or are new to it, are likely to enjoy it; for the rest of us it is a painful two hours. If I watched this as a 17 year old I could see myself enjoying it so can appreciate why some reviewers give it a high score.