Just goes to show...

Rating: 7/10 (17 March 2009)

you should never believe the hype. By all accounts, this movie is good, but it is not in a league of epic proportions. The story is incredible, but nothing that hasn't been used before, and the predictability takes away from the natural curiosities that make us movie-goers interested in the first place. Given, once the movie actually begins, the directors do a great job of sucking in the audience with shock value realism and of course the staples of any good movie: money and women. The problem is that its all been done before in a thousand different ways, and the only twist here is a game show. This is defiantly a movie everyone should see at least once... but your not going to be dying to watch it two months from now. And there is no reason to see it in theaters because its effect is not action or sensory based... although the soundtrack is pretty good. If there was a choice, I probably would have went with a 7.5 but the hype is why I rounded down here. Give it a shot, but don't go expecting a movie that won 8 Oscars, or a top 50 movie spot.