Just another summer flick

Rating: 5/10 (11 August 2012)

I give this one a "honest 5". The plot is full of holes and the storyline just does not make sense. I am a bit confused at the target audience here - the boy&girl love story probably makes this movie a chick film, yet the brutality somehow makes it lean towards action/summer movie category making it more of film for mature audience. My major problem with this movie is the idea of such "games" as well as the existence of "districts" that seem to be like native reservations and/or feudal work farms vs the big cities that lack nothing. Too little is done to elaborate on the pretext of the plot, rather some glamorous and for the lack of a better word "fake" characters are introduced and that's it: show's starting, "this is it". The current rating of 7.5 is just beyond me... Not bad, but not good either. OK camera-work, just fun enough to make one watch till the end but otherwise nothing special.