Great action,friendship,empowerment movie. Attempted romance fizzles.

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2012)

The Hunger Games was a well written and acted movie. The movie had a lot of heart. Jennifer Lawrence did a wonderful job and did so much with facial expressions. She said so much with her eyes. The bond Katniss has with Prim,Gale,Cinna and Rue are well done in the brief scenes they have. The movie succeeded were the book didn't. In making Katniss the hero and not just a pawn but the hero. Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson had a great sibling vibe about them. The matching black outfits remained me of Luke and Leai's white outfits in Star Wars. When the story turns it romantic for them it falls flat. They lack the romantic chemistry and sizzle. I was actually rolling my eyes and cringing at the romantic attempts. Unfortunately it's clear a triangle is coming like any predictable teen romance.predictable and also makes the girl in the middle annoying. Like I said in the hunger games it is as predictable as ever other teen romance. In triangles one you usually hate, one you pity or root for and the one in the middle gets annoying. Plus the girl always choices the one heavily feature in first book or film and like Jacob, Ducky from Pretty in Pink,etc the best friend does not get the girl. Hopefully the rest of the movies will focus more on the friendships and uprisings instead. Also In there brief time on screen Lenny Kravitz, Willow Shields, Liam Hemsworth and Amandla Stenberg were terrific.