An Unique and New Fantasy Franchise's beginning.

Rating: 7/10 (6 August 2012)

Entertaining, Action-Packed, Very Well Acted and Executed and with a very interesting story and concept which is unique and new in its own way, The Hunger Games is a very good Sci-Fi Fantasy movie which is enjoyable by any audience and its quite gripping and along with great performances from the ensemble cast and specially Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen and also due to a great amount of dedication and hard-work by Director Gary Ross, this movie is a really good start to the franchise and the first film sets the tone for the next films which are to come in the future.
The Story which is based on the novel written by Suzanne Collins is set in the future about a deadly reality TV show called The Hunger Games, and the rules of The Hunger games is that two persons(1 boy and 1 girl) will be taken from 12 different districts and one of them only can be the winner in the end. The Story is based around Katniss Everdeen, A girl in district 12 who's younger sister Primrose is selected for the Hunger Games but she volunteers herself and replaces her sister in this dangerous games, and her journey in this dangerous games and how she copes with danger all around her in The Hunger Games.
The Acting by the whole ensemble cast is very good and everyone has done their own job very well and have portrayed their characters brilliantly, But the stand-out performer was Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen as she portrays her character brilliantly and she was a brilliant pick for this character because she had all that it took to perfectly play this character. Her acting skills are very good and she is a really potential star on the rise. Stanly Tucci does a great job as the eccentric Caesar Flickerman who is TV presenter and Tucci has a small role in this movie but he really plays his character very well. Woody Harrelson and Josh Hutcherson also do there roles very well and their characters in this movie are quite significant and they do not disappoint. The Other Actors have done their part very well and the acting in this movie is very good.
The Director Gary Ross has done a brilliant job in making this movie and he implemented this interesting story and concept brilliantly and made a very good fantasy movie and he has done a marvelous job with his acting crew which is mostly a bit in-experienced. He was also a screen-writer in this movie and wrote a very good story for the movie which is unique and interesting in its own way and Ross did well by implementing the story written by Collins and he wrote good dialogues and took out the crucial parts and he implemented the story very well in the movie. Billy Ray and Suzanne Collins also were screen-writers and Ross along with them wrote a perfect story to start this franchise which is expected to be the next big franchise.
The Cinematography in the movie is quite good and all these new districts shown in the movie are really good and the Capitol was shown brilliantly too along with the area where the Hunger Games took place and the cinematographer Tom Stern did a very good job with the cinematography of this movie. The Special Effects were very good too and all these futuristic things shown in the movie were brilliantly shown and the special effects team did very well with all these action scenes and all the futuristic things shown. The Art Direction of this movie also was quite good as the Capitol, the districts and area where The Hunger games took place were made up brilliantly by the Art Direction team. The Background score of this movie is also quite good and the music is synchronised well with the scenes in this movie and music director James Newton Howard has done a good job with the music.
This movie has really set the tone for the upcoming movies to come for this highly anticipated and expected trilogy and with great acting and with actions and entertainment Guaranteed, this movie can be enjoyed by any audience.
My Rating: 7.5/10