Hungry for your money back

Rating: 3/10 (24 March 2012)

I walked into the cinema theater with an open mind about this movie. I knew not to expect too much but after reading a few reviews I knew to expect something at least entertaining enough to keep me seated for 2.5 hours. The beginning dragged ass, so I told myself that its just building up. After briefly getting introduced to some of the opponents and a short/brief and rough character development and getting to know your main 2 stars from district 12, they go to fight each other. 70% of the contestants die in ways only your imagination can show you. Because the movie really didn't. OK I shall stop spoiling now, the acting was horrible; children taken away from their families and loved ones, thrown in to a battle field having to viciously kill each other (apparently), acted as if they were doing gym class and they were there to show off how much better they were than everyone else. Jennifer Lawrence pulled off some half decent acting compared to the rest of the teeny cast but it was nothing memorable and nothing like the reviewers claimed it to be. It's not like she spoke much either, OK so she cried a bit and hooked up with the guy she liked, so?. The camera shooting as being mentioned by other reviewers made you nauseous and half the time you were unsure what you were supposed to focus on. The ending was a slight twist but did not make up for my 2.5 hours lost. They could have done so much more with this concept/adaptation, but of-course the money hungry holy-wood producers decided this was a movie for the 12 year old audience who know no better than Twilight.