Target

Rating: 5/10 (15 August 2014)

Are you the target audience? Are you female, possibly still a teenager? If you answer yes to both questions and will most likely also have read the book (I haven't), than the answer to what you think of this, is likely to be different from mine. Still I watched this with a female friend of mine and she was much ruder than me, when it came to evaluate the movie.
It is a different take on the Hunger Games I reckon, though I have no idea what the time-line is on those books. The whole idea about classes and deciding your own fate is the backbone and the one thing that sort of works here. What does not work is the "love story", again reducing teenage girls into messes who want to be treated as bad as possible, to fall in love with that "hard shell, soft heart" kinda person. It's like the more the guy pushes her off, the more she wants him.
We also get the clichés we expect to see. I can recommend the "Honest Trailer" to this, just search for it online and you'll find it amusing too, I'm sure. It's what it is, the target audience cannot wait for the sequel(s)