Critical Review on 'The Hunger Games'

Rating: 5/10 (30 March 2014)

Are you looking for a movie that would get your mind busy? I would honestly suggest this one movie directed by Gary Ross. This movie put me in a state of perplexity. I didn't know if I liked it or not, maybe because I had no idea what I had waiting for me.
This fictitious movie occurs in the far future, where people in a nation called Panem lived in twelve districts. Each year,two young representatives, one male and one female, from each district are selected randomly to participate in The Hunger Games. These games are cruel and terrifying. The twenty-four participants have to terminate the competitors while the citizens of Panem watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim , is selected as District 12's female representative, Katniss volunteers as tribute.
As the movie started, I was trying to capture the whole point of the movie. First of all, the sad, yet suspenseful music at the beginning of the movie kind of drew me in and caught my attention. In addition, the sounds during the games were exciting, especially the thrilling "boom" sound we heard once someone died. The idea of the movie was interesting to a certain extent.
On the other hand, there were some other times throughout the movie where I was reluctant to finish the movie. At the beginning of the movie, the idiotic fact that they barely had food was a bit unrealistic. Moreover, when I saw how the people at the capital were pampered with too much food to even eat. The costumes and the make up at the capital were ridiculous. I thought it was pathetic how they lived in the twelve districts. I also thought it was really unfair how just because of some kind of war, children at the capital lived with nothing to worry about; while the ones in the districts too worried whether they'd be in a life/death situation.
All in all, I thought this movie was somewhere in the range of a good one. Although when the movie was over, all I could think is, "Is that it?".