Average Movie

Rating: 6/10 (9 August 2012)

The movie kept my interest for the first half hour, but then lacked almost everything thereafter. There was no character development beyond the first hour, and everything was rushed. I was hoping for a much smaller introduction, and more character development. The acting was good to great, but the movie really lost its chance of being a "special movie".
I was really hoping for more utopia/homeless living, but it didn't really go beyond the extreme ignorance of happy people and depression of the districts. I was also hoping they would play off the "fear/hope" theme that they mentioned in the first half hour... but nothing.
I can't say much except I was disappointed. Ending was predictable and didn't really say much about history at all. It's like they took history and said "slavery is OK"... which hasn't stood still in the last 6,000 years. The small revolt lasted for 30 seconds and added NOTHING to the movie.
TL; DR - Don't watch this movie unless you have absolutely nothing better to watch. Book was probably better. Shitty themes and character development. Could have been top 250 if everything was above average.