Overly predictable, but still a little enjoyable.

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2014)

I watched this movie purely out of having no other movies to watch at the time; I wanted something to watch while doing work and turned to Netflix's suggestions to guide me towards something to watch. Though I had heard good about the film and that it stayed true to the popular novel it was based off of (I haven't read the books, by the way), I was rather disappointed upon actually seeing the film myself.
My main problem with this film was that it was EXTREMELY predictable- after about the first 15 minutes into the movie I could tell that the main character, "Katniss," was definitely going to live through the hunger games, and all of the horror that she may experience while partaking in the hunger games. This quite detracted from the experience for me as even though this character faced many near-death situations I still knew that she was going to live through them all. With this, I was no longer faced with any attachment to this character, as again, I knew I wouldn't have to worry about the possibility of her dying. In summary, The film wasn't really thrilling.
On the other side of things, The camera-work and GFX in this film were quite great, and any scene that required its set to be made in 3D looked quite real. Though I couldn't imagine any of these sets to be what future civilization may look like, they still looked pretty for the sake of the film.
The musical score was unremarkable, To say that I barely even noticed it throughout the film. Nothing more to say on that matter. The acting was also somewhat unremarkable, Though I couldn't say any of it was really bad- Just... somewhat mediocre.
Overall, I kinda enjoyed this film, though as mentioned earlier, it wasn't thrilling as it was really predictable. I shall patiently await its sequel to arrive on Netflix; Until then, I shall hopefully watch some more thrilling and less predictable films.