It could Have Been Better

Rating: 5/10 (7 November 2018)

In what used to be North America, the Capitol, Panem is divided into 12 Districts, who are all responsible for different jobs. Every year, to assert their dominance, the Capitol requires each district to send a boy and a girl to fight to the death. These people sent are called tributes. During these games, all the tributes go in with only one victor to emerge at the end. The movie is set around District 12, the Seam responsible for all the coal making. The 2 tributes Peeta and Katniss begin preparing with their mentor Haymitch, the notorious town drunk. Peeta portrayed by Josh Hutcherson is an experienced baker and helps his father in the bakery living a well-fed life, and Katniss portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence has to hunt whatever she can get to keep her family fed and alive. They find themselves keeping up a romantic act to remain alive and gain sponsors, or so it seems to be an act, in reality, Peeta has developed feelings for Katniss going back to when they first met, on the other hand, Katniss is forced to choose between survival and love.
The movie is overall a very well made film and a great group of actors but leaves many gaps. Throughout the movie I find myself confused with what happened an some of the background information that they neglected to mention in the film. The romance side of Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen is very undersold. They touch little on some of the more emotional scenes such as Rue's death. The Hunger Games is a very exciting and entertaining film and overall covers a lot of ground from the book, the movie sets up a great platform for the movies to come.