The Hunger Games

Rating: 7/10 (1 March 2015)

With his movie "The Hunger Games" Gary Ross directed an entertaining dystopia about the 16 year old girl Katniss Everdeen. The adaption closely follows the novel by Suzanne Collins from the beginning on.
In the dystopian world described by the movie, there are twelve districts which are ruled by the capitol. In remembrance of a past civil war, every year two tributes are chosen from each district who have to survive a brutal fight with only one winner. This event is being broadcast among the whole country. Katniss gets the tribute of district 12 together with Peeta Mellark. She volunteered to protect her sister who was chosen at first. Over the course of the story a romance between the two tributes develops. In comparison with the novel the secondary characters are not enough introduced to the viewer and only shown but not described in detail and the viewer doesn't develop feelings for them. All in all the movie is interesting and emotional but lacks thrilling scenes. In spite of that it is worth seeing.