A dumbed down version of the book, horrible camera work, Lackluster scenes

Rating: 5/10 (3 May 2012)

Shortly after reading the books and I was excited when I discovered they were making a film adaptation of it considering how good the books were, but after watching the film I was very disappointed. In the movie there was very little introduction to the characters, you knew almost nothing about them which made Gales Character feel irrelevant and peters history with Katniss unclear. During the intense action scenes the Camera work was shaky and felt unprofessional but could of been forgivable but they failed to deliver on the epic death scenes cutting away just so the it could have a PG rating, it was these lackluster death scenes that made the real threat of the hunger games seem somewhat in-existent. Katniss's tree sleeping scenes were boring and much like many of the scenes where her life was in danger it lacked the suspense it should have got. Although there were some good things about the film, some actions scenes were decent for one but all in all it's very average.