Entertaining, weak ending

Rating: 7/10 (15 December 2012)

Entertaining movie. It has got some nice stuff for sf-fans, like 3d-objects created on the drawing table and made to come to life on the fly. I love the combination of futurism and middle ages (take that, steam punk! nothing beats a bow for a weapon!). Maybe that's what it makes far more interesting than it's Japanese foster parent, Battle Royal. The Lord of the Flies theme of innocent children and grown up violence in a remote place of beautiful nature combined with the reality game element of The Running Man and the cliché but ever more relevant distinction of cultural decadence versus natural purity does it every time. In that sense also in the line of Avatar. Connotations with colonialism and Nazi Germany are not to be missed. All stuff that comes much too late off course, in 2012, where critique on colonialism has become cliché and reality shows are, well, a reality. That together with the insignificant ending, that explains and solves nothing, renders the movie in mere entertaining. No, I must admit, VERY entertaining. And no no no, Jennifer Lawrence has nothing to do with that :).