Good ideas, weak result

Rating: 4/10 (3 October 2012)

I was disappointed with this film, probably because I expected too much. This film has compromise written all over it. The basic idea of hunger games is excellent. What I expected, was a dark, moody Sci-Fi, as in Matrix. What I saw is a mixture of three or four different story-lines, badly mixed and pulling in opposite directions: Matrix (dark), Avatar (hopeful, people adapting to a strange place), teen love story (girl saves boy), another big-brother manipulation formula (The Island), etc.
Someone clearly decided to enlarge the target market and put something for everyone in this film. This resulted in the film losing the strength of its basic idea.