Awful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 1/10 (4 April 2012)

This film really is awful. Nauseating cinematography, as soon as Stanley Tucci came on in a bad blue wig I knew we were in for a rocky ride and it just went down hill all the way. It's so illogical it has to be seen to be believed but cutting a string bag with an arrow from a hundred yards to release apples that will then fall and land directly on a land mine (that is badly buried under the ground so that you can plainly see where it is) so that it blows up a pile of supplies is a good starting point, then it gets worse to the point that I was huffing and puffing all the way through and only stayed for more because I had taken my kids along to see it stupidly. There's just such a dead, pointlessly bland feeling to the whole film, the characters are so wooden and clichÃ©d that I didn't care about any of them, the only good thing was that as they were dispatched we had less bad acting to suffer. Production design is awful looks like some bad TV sci-fi from the '80's. I have absolutely nothing good to say about the whole film. There's not even any real sense of why the totalitarian government runs the games, too oppress, control, for sheer gladiatorial enjoyment? It doesn't even make any kind of social statements of any kind, there's no sense of irony, or anything that would give it some depth. It's not even good as an action film as it moves tediously slowly. The liaisons that form between the competitors are illogical, I was hoping for moments like in Death Race 2000 when the driver reverses over his own mechanic to gain points to the cheers of the hungry crowd baying for blood making us feel guilty as we sit in the cinema watching it........no such thing with this film!