Close-Up + Close Up +. .. Close Up + Shaky Camera + Blur ... up to Sickness!!!

Rating: 4/10 (23 March 2012)

Oh man! what a though film to see, this is for very vision healthy people; I waste my time hoping to see the sci-fi action flick I expected from the Trailers; but not, so creepy, the director thinks is cool to undermine the set decoration and special effects focusing his whole cinematographic style on such annoying things as out-of-focus shots, trembling vision and NO SLOW MOTION AT ALL.
I saw this movie in a pretty decent theater and still I was unable to see at least any of the action scenes; but I couldn't see any, literally, I could not see any of the quick movement stuff, they were giving me a headache; cuts so fast, camera so close to objects and people, bad lighting, dead colors, awful post-processing.
One expects that a movie based on future societies with modern cities and fantastic landmarks should have an eye-candy atmosphere; but this one was nothing about that. They wanted to give you a sense of action, some thrill and extra drama dosage by visually killing the film. It lost any visual attractive.
The plot is not quite bad at all; there are some interesting elements, but the premise that sustains the whole story (the Hunter Games celebration/Ceremony/Feast/TV Show/Sacrifice/etc) is not well explained in the movie, perhaps the books do a better job. The given theory is quite vague and contrasts with available technology and production means, wealthiness, etc.
The Acting is not so bad, some recognizable faces do a decent performance; the protagonist (Katniss) does a great portray, and her character is really cool (at least so far) is not the stupid Bella from Twilight, this is a hard-boiled down-to-earth forest-side-girl, a true hunter and a rational human being, her deeds are credible.
I hope that for the next 2 ones they don't focus the whole story around another Love-Triangle, I think we are kind of tired of the same crap; if the books are like that, I prefer to have the films a little bit distant from the books, letting Katniss to remain a cool Steve Macqueen Girl-next-door character.