Overall great story, but

Rating: 7/10 (5 April 2012)

Well, I may or may not read the book, it doesn't matter. What matters is the ability to tell the story from scratch, and the movie didn't do that very well.
First of all, there wasn't any background at all. Except few lines of text at the beginning of the movie (which don't help much). I don't wanna feel like I'm missing out something because I didn't read the book.
2. Poor character development. Most of the movie I had to guess who's that guy and who's the other guy, and what are their parts in the universe.
3. Life at the twelve districts seem not so bad!! The few flashbacks don't help to portray the dramatically horrible life at the districts. Like President Snow said, "The only thing more powerful than fear is hope". Well, Mr. Snow, I didn't get that fear to begin with.