"The Hunger Games" Review

Rating: 8/10 (2 April 2012)

"The Hunger Games" is without a doubt one of the most anticipated movies of 2012. A remake of a successful trilogy, I saw this movie yesterday. I came in with notably high expectations, since I had already read the books, which are of very high quality. The opening is very good, giving you a feeling that you are familiar with the characters. The preparations for the "Hunger Games" are portrayed in an exceptionally long fashion, but they are intriguing and fascinating. The main part of the movie, the "Hunger Games", portrays the love story of two 16 year- olds form the same poor District 12. The "Hunger Games" themselves will be depicted by the average viewer as nothing more than onslaught between teens. However if the viewer looks beyond the horrific killing between the participants he/she will see a marvelous and outstanding story of love, sacrifice, survival, caring, kindness and action. The "Hunger Games" themselves are magnificent and your eyes will be "glued to the screen". Not only is the movie simply very good, it criticizes today's civilization in a way that makes you re-think many things. Even though the movie is almost 2.5 hours long it is so interesting that you feel as if it is only 1 hour long. When you exit the movie theater you will only think you saw a very good movie, but after a few hours (when it sinks in to you) you start to realize all the messages and criticizements that the film has for today's population. As I have mentioned before the movie contains never-ending killing between 12-18 year old teens, and a few "jump" scenes. Thus, I must advise that children under the age of 14 should not be allowed to view this film.